Kettős mérce? Az Európai Bizottság és a kisebbségek
Double Standards? The European Commission and the Minorities

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to examine the relationship between the European Commission and the minorities. The European Commission is the EU’s executive body, the guardian of the Treaties, responsible for proposing legislation and managing the Union’s policies and budget on a day-to-day basis. The study starts from the assumption that today’s European Commission is embroiled in self-controversy over minority policy and applies a double standard. Although the Union’s primary law prohibits discrimination against all minorities, the European Commission highlights some of the minorities listed in the EU’s primary sources of law, while neglecting others and deliberately sweeping their citizens’ initiatives off the table. In this study, I examine why, and by which legal means, political methods, and ideological convictions the European Commission reaches its goals. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, minority policy falls within the competence of the Member States, and the European Union does not have a system of norms for minorities, yet the Commission is ready to propose a series of laws, regulations and budgetary frameworks in favour of immigrant and sexual minority groups. What will be the long-term social and demographic consequences of these decisions? What kind of Europe do our children inherit from the Juncker and Von der Leyen Commissions?

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