Part 1. Setting the scene. 1. Introduction (Bernd Rechel) 2. Tracing the construction and effects of EU conditionality (Gwendolyn Sasse) 3. Anti-discrimination legislation (Guido Schwellnus) 4. The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Rainer Hofmann) 5. The Roma (Peter Vermeersch and Melanie Ram) Part 2: Country case studies. 6. Bulgaria: minority rights ‘light’ (Bernd Rechel) 7. Czech Republic: exceptionality and conditionality at work (Eva Sobotka). 8. Estonia: conditionality amidst a legal straightjacket (Vello Pettai and Kristina Kallas). 9. Hungary: a model with lasting problems (Balazs Vizi). 10. Latvia: managing post-imperial minorities (David Galbreath and Nils Muiznieks). 11. Lithuania: progressive legislation without popular support (Dovile Budryte and Vilana Pilinskaite-Sotirovi). 12. Poland: minority policies in a homogenized state (Peter Vermeersch). 13. Romania: from laggard to leader? (Melanie H. Ram). 14. Slovakia: from marginalization of ethnic minorities to political participation (and back?) (Stefan Auer). 15. Slovenia: ethnic exclusion in a model accession state (Jelka Zorn). Part 3. Conclusions. 16. The way forward (Bernd Rechel)
Biography
Bernd Rechel is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at Birmingham University, UK. He has published widely on minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe and is author of The Long Way Back to Europe: Minority Protection in Bulgaria.
