Towards 'Consociationalism Light'? the EU's, the Council of Europe's and the High Commissioner on National Minorities' Policies regarding the Hungarian Minorities in Romania and Slovakia

Skovgaard, Jakob, Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe : JEMIE

Abstract

This paper concerns how three organisations, namely the Council of Europe, the European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) including its High Commissioner on National Minorities, have addressed the issue of the Hungarian minorities in Romania and Slovakia. The organisations have issued recommendations to the governments of Hungary, Romania and Slovakia regarding how to treat these sizeable minorities, and paper looks into these recommendations to see what the 'ideal minority policies' of the three organisations have looked like. It is argued that the organisations started from rather different perspectives, but during the 1990s …

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Publication information: Article title: Towards 'Consociationalism Light'? the EU's, the Council of Europe's and the High Commissioner on National Minorities' Policies regarding the Hungarian Minorities in Romania and Slovakia. Contributors: Skovgaard, Jakob - Author. Journal title: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe : JEMIE. Issue: 2 Publication date: July 1, 2009. Page number: 1+. © Not available. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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