Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe write by Bernd Rechel. This book was released on 2010-06. Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Impact of EU Law on Minority Rights
The Impact of EU Law on Minority Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impact of EU Law on Minority Rights write by Tawhida Ahmed. This book was released on 2011-01-12. The Impact of EU Law on Minority Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a critical evaluation of the ways in which EU law engages with minority rights protection: at its core is an analysis of EU law and minority rights. Unlike the UN or ECHR, the EU has no competence to set standards on minority protection and this has been a point of disappointment for minority rights advocates. Indeed, this book will demonstrate that, in EU law, binding standards really only exist in the sphere of non-discrimination and are at their strongest in the field of employment. As such, binding standards within EU law affect only a small proportion of the canon of minority rights. However, the EU does have competence to promote diversity and facilitate redistribution of power and resources across the EU. According to a broad understanding of minority rights protection, acts of promotion and facilitation -alongside those of standard-setting - constitute essential underpinnings for minority protection. The EU's existing competences do therefore play a key role in minority protection. In order to support these conclusions, the book undertakes a comprehensive examination of the impact of EU law on minority rights protection. The book examines a broad range of the EU's legal provisions and principles which may affect minority protection, before undertaking in-depth analyses of the examples of minority cultural rights and minority linguistic rights. In addition, the final substantive chapter of the book contextualises the impact of EU law within the perspective of the overall needs of a specific group - the Roma minority. The concluding chapter draws together the EU's contribution to minority rights. In short, the EU can be seen as a promoter, but not a protector, of minority rights. Although not ideal, especially from the perspective of minorities, it is worth at least exploring such a view. Such an exploration would enable the EU most easily to build upon its existing competences and regulatory capacities. This book will be of interest to lawyers and activists concerned with minority rights and Roma rights protection within the EU. It will also be of relevance to those interested in understanding the dynamics between the EU and the international law community in overlapping areas of rights protection, and exploring how this informs our perception of the capacity of the EU to be a central actor in the field of rights protection.
Cultural Governance and the European Union
Cultural Governance and the European Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Governance and the European Union write by Evangelia Psychogiopoulou. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Cultural Governance and the European Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture. The book examines the ways in which cultural issues have been framed at the EU level and the policies and instruments to which they have given vent.
Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union
Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union write by Kirsten Shoraka. This book was released on 2010-06-17. Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democracy and human rights. This book examines the development and the role of human rights in the European Union, from its inception as an economic co-operation project to an organisation of European States with a political agenda that goes beyond its borders. It argues that human rights have become an important component of the foreign policy of the European Union and that this role has grown from the inception of the Union through the Cold War and thereafter onto the process of enlargement of the Union. The book goes on to analyse the EU’s policy on minorities, as a particular example of human rights. It considers the level of their protection within the EU and the framework of international law, and compares minority rights in the older Member States including France, Germany and the UK, with newer Eastern European states.
Minority Rights in Europe
Minority Rights in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minority Rights in Europe write by Patrick Thornberry. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Minority Rights in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication discusses the main standards and mechanisms created by the Council of Europe and other international organisations to protect the rights of minorities in Europe, including key legal instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, and the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages. It reviews the monitoring activities in various Council of Europe member and non-member states, both prior to their accession and in their post-accession phase. The publication also includes a detailed examination of the case of the Roma/Gypsies, a specific minority without a 'kin state'.
