Bringing minority rights home : the effective protection of minorities in the enlarged European Union: possible goal or just a myth?

dc.contributor.advisorKlabber, Jan
dc.contributor.authorPirkova, Eliska
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26T14:46:51Z
dc.date.available2019-03-26T14:46:51Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionSecond semester University: University of Helsinkien_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyses whether the European Union needs to establish a legal framework to protect the rights of national minorities living in its Member States. It focuses mostly on the accession process to the European Union, as minority protection constitutes one of the Copenhagen Political Criteria. This matter is examined trough a case studies of Slovakia, Latvia and Turkey, countries with complicated situations of their minority groups. It shows how strong impact, if any the EU conditionality had within the candidate states regarding minority protection. As it is demonstrated, the European Union has not resolved these problems, largely because the European Union lacks consistent and uniform standards on minority protection. It is argued that as the European Union enlarges further, there is a strong need for consistent and uniform standards of internal and external protection of minority rights. In its conclusion the study proposes several possible alternatives that could help the European Union to ensure consistency of standards in the accession process, as well as resolve remaining issues of minorities internally.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/20.500.11825/966
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25330/1935
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEMA theses 2010/2011;57
dc.subjectminority rightsen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen_US
dc.titleBringing minority rights home : the effective protection of minorities in the enlarged European Union: possible goal or just a myth?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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