Towards a functioning minority protection in the European Union
It is with great pleasure that 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 announce the roundtable discussion entitled Towards a functioning minority protection in the European Union â?? The need for a long-term strategy on the basis of the European Parliament resolution organized on November 5, 2008, in the European Parliament, in Brussels. The roundtable brought together members of the European Parliament, representatives of EU institutions, Member State Governments, intergovernmental organizations and minority policy experts.
As part of the conference series entitled New Approaches to the Issue of Minorities in the European Union launched in December 2007, the roundtable addressed the issue of preparing a long-term strategy of minority protection in the European Union. More specifically, the discussion took up, among other subjects, policy recommendations towards the realization of such a strategy on the basis of a European Parliament resolution, the necessary instruments of such a strategy, as well as the potential implementing agents of a minority protections system in the European Union.
