The European Yearbook of Minority Issues provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in minority-majority relations in Europe. It combines analysis, commentary and documentation in relation to conflict management, international legal developments and domestic legislation affecting minorities in Europe.

Foreword; Part I: Articles A. General Articles Section Official Language Preferences, and the Recognition of a Person's Name: A Significant Clarification after Raihman v. Latvia Fernand de Varennes; Framing Ethnic Issues through the Notion of Discrimination: the Case of Russia Alexander Osipov; The Protection of the Cultural Identity of Minorities in International Law: Individual versus Collective Rights Claudia Tavani; EU Enlargement and Minority Rights: A Regime in the Making David J. Galbreath; Project Report: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Minority Protection Rules in Ten New EU Member States Guido Schwellnus, Liudmila Mikalayeva and Lilla Balazs; Implementing Soft Law: The Case of Equality Promotion Malte Brosig; European Integration and Minority Nationalist Mobilisation in France Emelyne Cheney; Defining the Indefinable: A Definition of 'Minority' in EU Law Gulara Guliyeva; B. Special Focus: Education Minority Education - torn in Contradictions? Sia Spiliopoulou Akermark; Romani Teaching: Some General Considerations Based on Model Cases Dieter Halwachs; Learning the Neighbour's Language: The Many Challenges in Achieving a Real Multilingual Society. The Case of Second Language Acquisition in the Minority-Majority Context of South Tyrol Andrea Abel, Chiara Vettori and Doris Forer; The Right to Education of Persons Belonging to National Minorities in Vojvodina 1974-2004 Aleksandra Vujic; Recognizing Formal and Substantive Equality in the Orsus Case Andrea Grgic; C. Special Focus: Minorities and the Media: Present, Probing and Pressing Questions Minorities and the Media: Present, Probing and Pressing Questions Tarlach McGonagle and Tom Moring; Language Minorities and New Media. Facing Trilingualism? Laszlo Vincze; BBC ALBA and the Evolution of Gaelic Television Broadcasting: A Case Study Robert Dunbar; Minorities and Online 'Hate Speech': A Parsing of Selected Complexities Tarlach McGonagle; D. Special Focus: Minorities and Religion Law and Religion: The Need for the Development of an Interdisciplinary Framework of Analysis Joseph Marko; The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to Contemporary Religious-Related Dilemmas Roberta Medda-Windischer; Religious Minorities and Human Rights: Bridging International and Domestic Perspectives on the Rights of Persons Belonging to Religious Minorities under English law Nazila Ghanea-Hercock; Positive Measures and the EU Equality Directives: Closing the Protection Gap Between 'New' and 'Old' Minorities Through the Reasonable Accommodation of Religion? Jennifer Jackson-Preece; Part II: Reports A. International Developments Review of the Monitoring Process of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Francoise Kempf; Developments in the Field of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages Vesna Crnic-Grotic; Minority Rights Questions Addressed by the Venice Commission in 2010 Pierre Garrone; The Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities January 2010 to December 2010 Stephanie Marsal and Vincent de Graaf; The European Union and Minorities in 2010: A Renewed Commitment? Gabriel N. Toggenburg and Karen McLaughlin; B. National Developments The Kurdish Opening and the Constitutional Reform: Is there any Progress? Elcin Aktoprak; Denmark Adopts Unilateral Legislation in Favour of Kin-Minority Tove H. Malloy; The Development of Language Legislation in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine: Similarities and Differences Iryna Ulasiuk; How to Stop a Perpetuum Mobile? Interdisciplinary Insights into the Ongoing Issue of the Slovene Ethnic Minority in Austria: The Question of Bilingual Topography Jurgen Pirker; The Distinction of Minority Language Protection and Languages as a Cultural Heritage in Italy: The Case of the Piedmontese Dialect Ulrike Haider Quercia; Part III: Book Reviews Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (eds.), Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), ISBN: 978-0-8122-4230-0 (Hardback) Francesco Palermo; Marc Weller, Contested Statehood: Kosovo's Struggle for Independence (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009), ISBN: 978-0199566167 (Hardback) and James Ker-Lindsay, Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans (London: I.B.Tauris, 2009), ISBN: 978-1848850125 (Hardback) Jan Asmussen; Annelies Verstichel, Participation, Representation and Identity. The Right of Persons Belonging to Minorities to Effective Participation in Public Affairs: Content, Justification and Limits (Antwerp, Oxford, Portland: Intersentia, 2009), ISBN: 978-9050958400 (Hardback) Verena Wisthaler; Appendix: List of International Norms.