Politics versus law in the EU's approach to ethnic minorities

Europe Unbound: Enlarging and Reshaping the Boundaries of the European Union

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 137-160

  De Witte, Bruno ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203217092     Document Type: Chapter

References (21)

1. Arie Bloed, ed., The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. Analysis and Basic Documents, 1972-1993 (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1993), p. 93.
2. Amaryllis Verhoeven, 'How Democratic Need European Union Members Be? Some Thoughts after Amsterdam', European Law Review, 23 (1998), pp. 217ff. (p. 233).
3. See also, for an excellent survey, Gaetano Pentassuglia, 'The EU and the Protection of Minorities: The Case of Eastern Europe', European Journal of International Law, 12 (2001), pp. 3ff.
4. See the analysis by Jean Charpentier, 'Les déclarations des Douze sur la reconnaissance des nouveaux États', Revue générale du droit international public, 96 (1992), pp. 343ff.
5. see Colin Warbrick, 'Current Developments:Public International Law', International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1992), 41, pp. 473ff. (pp. 477-8).
6. See Rahim Kherad, 'La reconnaissance des États issus de la dissolution de la République Socialiste Fédérative de Yougoslavie par les membres de l'Union Européenne', Revue générale de droit international public, 101 (1997), pp. 663ff.
7. Florence Benoît-Rohmer, 'Le Pacte de Stabilité: la première action "diplomatique" commune d'envergure de l'Union européenne', Revue trimestrielle de droit européen, 30 (1994), pp. 561ff. (p. 574).
8. But see the typology proposed by Norbert Rouland, Stéphane Pierré-Caps and Jacques Poumarède, Droit des minorités et des peuples autochtones (Paris: PUF, 1996), pp. 261-305;
9. Roberto Toniatti, 'Minorities and Protected Minorities:Constitutional Models Compared', in Michael Dunne and Tiziano Bonazzi, eds, Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies (Keele: Keele University Press, 1995), p. 195.
10. The expression is borrowed from Yves Mény, 'Introduction: La greffe et le rejet', in Yves Mény, ed., Les politiques du mimétisme institutionnel (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993), pp. 7ff. (p. 33).
11. For a more elaborate analysis, see Stéphane Pierré-Caps, 'Peut-on parler actuellement d'un droit européen des minorités?', Annuaire français de droit international, 40 (1994), pp. 72ff.;
12. Patrick Thornberry, 'Minority Rights', in Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Volume VI, Book 2 (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1997), pp. 307ff.
13. As in the title of an article by Erika B. Schlager, 'The Right to Have Rights:Citizenship in Newly Independent OSCE Countries', Helsinki Monitor (1997), p. 19.
14. This is the comprehensive concept proposed by Asbjørn Eide, 'Group Accommodation: National Policies and International Requirements', in Matscher, ed., Vienna International Encounter, pp. 103ff.
15. See, for more details, Patrick Thornberry, 'Images of Autonomy and Individual and Collective Rights in International Instruments on the Rights of Minorities', in Suksi, ed., Autonomy, pp. 112-16.
16. See the analysis, written in 1990, but still broadly valid today, by Philippe de Schoutheete, 'The European Community and Its Sub-Systems', in William Wallace, ed., The Dynamics of European Integration (London: Pinter Publishers, 1990), pp. 106ff.
17. On what follows, see also María Amor Martín Estébanez, 'The Protection of National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities', in Nanette A. Neuwahl and Allan Rosas, eds, The European Union and Human Rights (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1995), pp. 133ff. (pp. 142-54).
18. See Tamara K. Hervey, 'Migrant Workers and Their Families in the European Union: The Pervasive Market Ideology of Community Law', in Jo Shaw and Gillian More, eds, New Legal Dynamics of European Union (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 91ff. (pp. 95-102).
19. See, among others: Charles Taylor, 'The Politics of Recognition', in Charles Taylor, ed., Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 25ff.;
20. Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995);
21. Perry Keller, 'Re-thinking Ethnic and Cultural Rights in Europe', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 18 (1998), pp. 29ff.