CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kovacs, Reka |
|---|---|
| Title | MINORITY PROTECTION IN THE EU: THE CASE OF THE HUNGARIAN MINORITY IN SLOVAKIA AND ROMANIA |
| Summary | This thesis explores minority protection in the European Union and uses Slovakia and Romania as case studies. The findings contradict post-nationalist and post-modernist predictions that European integration leads to the erosion of nationalism and creates a European identity. Nationalism did not subdue in either Slovakia or Romania after EU accession and the majority-minority relations have not improved. The thesis explains the circumstances of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia and Romania starting from the division of the Kingdom of Hungary through the Soviet occupation, regime change in the 1990s, and the EU accession phase up to the current situation. It also goes into detail about the EU’s competences in minority rights, and it points out its deficiencies as well as its areas that have improved. It considers the main limitations to be the lack of a proper definition and monitoring and Article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty the most positive improvement in terms of minority protection. The overall finding of the piece is that EU accession did not improve the situation of the Hungarian minority significantly in the two countries assessed. |
| Supervisor | Balazs, Peter |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/kovacs_reka.pdf |
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