[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] CfA: Conference: Minority Protection and the EU: The Way Forward

[Agron Alibali]

> 
> Minority Protection and the EU 
> The Way Forward 
> Conference 
> 30 and 31 January 2004 
> European Academy Bolzano/Bozen 
> 
> At the end of January 2004 - that is, four months
> before Eastern Enlargement becomes a fait accompli -
> a dozen experts in the area of European integration
> and minority protection will present their ideas in
> the capital of South Tyrol about how the enlarged
> Union should approach the countless minorities
> living on its substantially enlarged territory. 
> The “respect for and protection of minorities�
> has been one of the prominent EU-imposed Copenhagen
> criteria which the candidate countries have had to
> fulfill in the last decade. Various pre-accession
> instruments have served to streamline candidates'
> attitude vis-à -vis their minorities. In the EU’s
> internal sphere, however, this topic has remained
> very much a non-topic. Will minority protection
> vanish from the EU-scene once the candidate states
> acquire full EU membership? 
> This conference brings experts, NGO representatives
> and politicians together in order to raise and
> discuss the question of how the importance of the
> integration and protection of minorities (which is
> acknowledged at the political level) could be
> transformed into concrete legal instruments inside
> the framework of the newly-enlarged and re-designed
> European Union.
> 
> The conference bases on a project called PECEDE
> (Platform for an Enriching Culturally and Ethnically
> Diverse Europe) which is co-sponsored by the
> European Commission and the Open Society Institute.
> The project is run in cooperation with the Local
> Government and Public Service Initiative (LGI,
> Budapest, Petra Kovacs), and the European Academy
> Bolzano (EURAC). The latter provided the European
> Commission in 1998 with a bundle of proposals for EU
> involvement in the area of diversity and minorities
> – the so-called “Package for Europe�). The
> conference proceedings will be published in June
> 2004. Project Manager is Gabriel N. Toggenburg. 
> 
> The conference consists of eight concise key
> contributions. All speakers will make suggestions
> from their respective fields of expertise. Each of
> these contributions will be commented on by a
> relevant expert in the field (a discussant). Each
> session will be followed by a short discussion in
> plenum. Participation is open to everybody as long
> as space is available. 
> 
> The conference takes place in the new Convention
> Centre of the European Academy. Contacts: EURAC
> Convention Centre Viale Druso 1/Drususstrasse 1
> I-39100 Bolzano/Bozen 
> 
> Participation in the conference is free. However,
> space is limited. Please do, therefore, register in
> due time – at the latest, before the end of
> December via email, phone or fax: Mr. Robert Asanger
> Tel: 0039 0471 055 201 Fax: 0039 0471 055 099 Email:
> Robert.Asanger at eurac.edu
> 
> Details are displayed under the following link: 
> http://www.eurac.edu/Org/Minorities/workshop.htm 
> 
> Antonija Petricusic
> 
> Minorities and Autonomies
> __________________________
> EURAC research
> Viale Druso/Drususallee 1 
> I-39100 Bolzano/Bozen 
> Italy
> 
> Tel: +39 0471 055225 
> Fax: +39 0471 055299 
> Email: apetricusic at eurac.edu
> Website: www.eurac.edu/miris 
> 
> 
> 

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