European Yearbook of Minority Issues: 2002-2003 (European Yearbook of Minority Issues)

The European Yearbook of Minority Issues provides a critical and timely review of contemporary developments in minority-majority relations in Europe. It combines analysis, commentary and documentation in relation to conflict management, international legal developments and domestic legislation affecting minorities in Europe. Part I contains scholarly articles and, in 2002/3, features two special focus sections (‘Belgium' and 'New Minorities’), accompanied by a miscellaneous articles section. Part II reviews the implementation of minority legislation and international standards at the universal and regional levels as well as new developments in relation to them and contains a list of international norms. Apart from providing a unique annual overview of minority issues for both scholars and practitioners in this field, the Yearbook will be an indispensable reference tool for libraries, research institutes as well as governments and international organisations. Table of Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 10 PART I: ARTICLES......Page 12 A. General Articles Section......Page 14 The 'Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic': From Conflict-Driven State-Building to State-Driven Nation-Building......Page 16 The Role and Activities of the OSCE Mission to Moldova in the Process of Transdniestrian Conflict Resolution......Page 42 Minorities in New European Democracies: A Source of Destabilization?......Page 64 Roma Politics and Policy in Hungary 1999-2003......Page 84 Language Legislation and Language Rights in the United Kingdom......Page 106 Minorities as a Threat: A Historical Reconstruction of State-Minority Relations in Turkey......Page 138 Changing Concepts of Interest and the Annan Plan for Cyprus......Page 162 Elaborating A Catalogue of Best Practices of Effective Participation of National Minorities: Review of the Opinions of the Advisory Committee Regarding Article 15 of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities......Page 176 Reversing Ethnic and Cultural Cleansing: The Role of Annex 8 in Reclaiming History, Promoting Post-War Reconciliation and Preserving the Unique Cultural Heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina......Page 208 Party System, Electoral Systems and Minority Representation in the Republic of Macedonia from 1990 to 2002......Page 238 Territorial Autonomy and European National Minorities: South Tyrol, the Basque Country and the Åland Islands......Page 258 The Baltic States before EU Accession: Recent Developments in Minority Protection......Page 294 B. Special Focus: Belgium......Page 318 Pacifying National Majorities in the Brussels Capital Region: What About the Immigrant Minority Groups?......Page 320 Personality versus Territoriality: Belgium and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities......Page 342 The Application of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in Belgium: The Opinion of the European Commission for Democracy through Law......Page 368 C. Special Focus: New Minorities......Page 374 The Rights of 'Old' versus 'New' Minorities......Page 376 Legal Indicators for Social Inclusion of New Minorities Generated by Immigration......Page 392 PART II: REPORTS......Page 408 A. International Developments......Page 410 Review of the Monitoring Process of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities......Page 412 Developments in the Field of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages......Page 446 The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights......Page 456 The Protection of Minorities in the Activities of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe......Page 482 The Activities of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: June 2002 – June 2003......Page 486 Review of the 8th Session of the United Nations Working Group on Minorities......Page 504 The Jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and Other Treaty Monitoring Bodies......Page 518 The Jurisprudence of the American and African Regional Human Rights Bodies......Page 548 Protection of National Minorities through Bilateral Agreements......Page 590 B. National Developments......Page 616 Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia......Page 618 Legal Status and Rights of Minorities in Serbia and Montenegro......Page 642 The New Bulgarian Religious Law: Restrictive and Discriminatory......Page 666 The Drafting of a Law against Discrimination on the Grounds of Racial or Ethnic Origin in Germany: Constraints in Constitutional and European Community Law......Page 686 The Ombudsperson Institution in Kosovo and the Protection of Minorities......Page 702 The War in Chechnya and Actions Taken by the Council of Europe......Page 716 List of International Norms......Page 726