ROMA MINORITY RIGHTS AFTER THE LARGEST EU ENLARGEMENT Cover Image

ПРАВАТА НА РОМСКОТО МАЛЦИНСТВО ПО НАЈГОЛЕМОТО ПРОШИРУВАЊЕ НА ЕУ
ROMA MINORITY RIGHTS AFTER THE LARGEST EU ENLARGEMENT

Author(s): Silvia Zanette
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Центар за регионални истражувања и соработка Студиорум
Keywords: Roma minority; ethnic minority; minority policies; policies; rights; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; EU; Copenhagen criteria; EU membership

Summary/Abstract: The paper explored the development of Roma minority policies across Central and Eastern Europe throughout history. The focus was on the way the questions of minority policies in general and East European Roma in particular were tackled by the European Union prior and after the 2004 and 2007 eastward enlargements. It is argued that even if the rights of minorities officially became, for the first time, with the first of the Copenhagen criteria part of the preconditions for EU membership, the EU failed in providing CEECs clear guidelines in the field of minority protection. As a consequence, Roma, as the European Union’s largest ethnic minority, are those who least benefited from EU membership, and their disadvantaged situation still endures despite EU membership.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 187-200
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Macedonian