Minority Politics within the Europe of Regions

Abstract

Within the European space, issues related to ethno-regionalism and the legal status of national and ethnic minorities are covered by several models, such as federalization, self-rule and autonomy. In the recent decade these models and their consequences influencing European architecture have been widely studied in all sorts of theoretical and empirical frameworks. After the expansion of the EU with the Central and Eastern European countries in 2004 and 2007, and with the coming integration of the Western Balkans and possibly other states from Eastern Europe, there has been a proliferation of multi-ethnic regions and national and ethnic minority cases within or in the close vicinity of the Union. Researchers from a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines, including social and political sciences, history, linguistics, law, economy and area studies will be invited to present empirical or theoretical studies on the minority issue in the European space. This panel will especially welcome in-depth studies on models of self-rule and autonomy with respect to national, ethnic and linguistic minorities in the Union addressing institutional solutions and rights benefiting minorities in old and new Member States and the solutions that are provided by the Union’s transnational structure.

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