Table of Contents

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the
European Union 1
Tove H. Malloy and Balázs Vizi

PART I THE POLITICS OF THE ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE
2 The Treaties and minority rights 16
Rainer Hofmann and Moritz Malkmus
3 Fundamental rights and racial and cultural minorities in the EU: carving
out a mandate to protect ‘Others’ 38
Kyriaki Topidi
4 Fundamental rights and non-EU minorities: from an ambiguous concept
to an integrated society? 62
Roberta Medda-Windischer and Katharina Crepaz
5 The Court of Justice of the European Union and ‘minorities’ 84
Kristin Henrard
6 European Union law and international minority rights law 112
Norbert Tóth

PART II THE POLITICS OF DECISION-MAKING AND
POLICY-MAKING
7 The European Parliament, the Council and the European Council 128
Noémi Nagy and Balázs Vizi
8 The European Commission and minority rights 144
Tawhida Ahmed
9 Enlargement and minority politics: the unravelling of the EU’s
transformative power? 162
Tove H. Malloy
10 The democratization efforts 190
Petra Lea Láncos

PART III THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY
11 Linguistic diversity and language rights 211
Jose Ramón Intxaurbe Vitorica and Eduardo Ruiz Vieytez
12 The cultural policy of the European Union 230
Miklós Király
13 European Union Roma policy: under construction 250
Melanie H. Ram

PART IV THE POLITICS OF COHESION
14 European Union regional policy and national minorities 272
Tamara Hoch
15 Between dynamic practice and normative limits: minorities and
debordering processes in the European Union 289
Alice Engl
16 Special territories in the European Union 309
Maria Ackrén
17 Problem territories and internal peace: minority nations and ‘internal
enlargement’ in the European Union 330
Tove H. Malloy

PART V THE POLITICS OF EXTERNAL ACTION
18 Minority rights and European Union conditionality in the Western
Balkans: from external to internal politics? 347
Maria Dicosola
19 The ‘near abroad’: the European Union, minority rights and the Eastern
neighbourhood 365
Graham Donnelly and Federica Prina
20 The European Union and global development cooperation: promoting
minority rights? 398
Laia Pau Romaní and Joshua Castellino

Index

About the Author

Edited by Tove H. Malloy, Professor of European Studies, Department of European and International Law, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany and External Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark and Balázs Vizi, Research Professor, Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary and Associate Professor, Department of International Law, University of Public Service, Hungary