Towards a European Parliament Resolution on National Minorities
Preliminary Report
roundtable discussion organized by
The Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) Regional Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe,
PER in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
and the
European Parliament’s Intergroup on Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages
On May 7, 2008, the Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) Regional Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in Bucharest, PER in Princeton, New Jersey, USA and the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages organized a roundtable discussion entitled Towards a European Parliament Resolution on National Minorities in the European Union. The roundtable organized in the European Parliament, in Brussels brought together members of the European Parliament, representatives of EU institutions, Member State Governments, intergovernmental organizations and minority policy experts. The discussion was co-chaired by Livia B. Plaks, President of PER and Csaba Tabajdi, Chairman of the EP Intergroup for Traditional National Minorities, Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages. The key-note speakers of the roundtable were Attila MarkA3, Secretary of State of the Department for Interethnic Relations from Romania and Gabriel N. Toggenburg, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Minority Rights from Bolzano, Italy.
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