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Looking Back at Ten Years of EU Minority Conditionality vis-a-vis Central and Eastern European Candidate States

Looking Back at Ten Years of EU Minority Conditionality vis-a-vis Central and Eastern European... Guido Schwellnus* Looking Back at Ten Years of EU Minority Conditionality vis-à-vis Central and Eastern European Candidate States I. Introduction The issue of minority protection has acquired an important role in the EU's external relations after the end of the Cold War. This development started in , when the Declaration on Human Rights adopted at the Luxembourg European Council dedicated a whole paragraph to minority protection,1 and the guidelines for the recognition of new states after the break-up of Yugoslavia required "guarantees for the rights of ethnic and national groups and minorities in accordance with the commitments subscribed to in the framework of the CSCE".2 Subsequently, references to minority protection were included in the Europe Agreements with Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), the Stability Pacts for Eastern and South Eastern Europe, and most significantly the political accession criteria spelled out at the Copenhagen European Council in required applicant states to guarantee the "respect for and protection of minorities".3 Since the start of accession negotiations in , the European Commission has continuously monitored the performance of CEECs wishing to become EU members with regard to their treatment of minorities. Now, after ten new members acceded to Researcher at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online Brill

Looking Back at Ten Years of EU Minority Conditionality vis-a-vis Central and Eastern European Candidate States

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Brill
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Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1570-7865
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2211-6117
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10.1163/22116117-90000015
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Guido Schwellnus* Looking Back at Ten Years of EU Minority Conditionality vis-à-vis Central and Eastern European Candidate States I. Introduction The issue of minority protection has acquired an important role in the EU's external relations after the end of the Cold War. This development started in , when the Declaration on Human Rights adopted at the Luxembourg European Council dedicated a whole paragraph to minority protection,1 and the guidelines for the recognition of new states after the break-up of Yugoslavia required "guarantees for the rights of ethnic and national groups and minorities in accordance with the commitments subscribed to in the framework of the CSCE".2 Subsequently, references to minority protection were included in the Europe Agreements with Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), the Stability Pacts for Eastern and South Eastern Europe, and most significantly the political accession criteria spelled out at the Copenhagen European Council in required applicant states to guarantee the "respect for and protection of minorities".3 Since the start of accession negotiations in , the European Commission has continuously monitored the performance of CEECs wishing to become EU members with regard to their treatment of minorities. Now, after ten new members acceded to Researcher at

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European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

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