Beschreibung:
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, covering all the countries of the region that have joined the EU since 2004, including Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.
1. Introduction 2. Tracing the construction and effects of EU conditionality 3. Anti-discrimination legislation 4. The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities 5. The Roma 6. Bulgaria: minority rights 'light' 7. Czech Republic: exceptionality and conditionality at work 8. Estonia: conditionality amidst a legal straightjacket 9. Hungary: a model with lasting problems 10. Latvia: managing post-imperial minorities 11. Lithuania: progressive legislation without popular support 12. Poland: minority policies in a homogenized state 13. Romania: from laggard to leader? 14. Slovakia: from marginalization of ethnic minorities to political participation (and back?) 15. Slovenia: ethnic exclusion in a model accession state 16. The way forward