M O N I T O R I N G T H E E U A C C E S S I O N P R O C E S S : M I N O R I T Y P R O T E C T I O N. Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Minority Protection .... and Eastern European States seeking full membership in the European Union2 and in ..... In most cases, the bodies charged with responsibility for coordinating.

Open Society Institute (EU Accession Monitoring Program), Monitoring the EU Accession. Process: Minority Protection, Volume I: An Assessment of Selected Policies in Candidate. States and Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Minority Protection, Volume II: Case Studies in Selected Member States (Open Society ...

May 24, 2016 ... minorities in a selection of 11 European countries, in light of existing international and regional legal ... been an EU priority in enlargement processes as a conditional criterion for candidate countries to accede ..... played a very limited role in better upholding and monitoring EU Member States' obligations to ...

Abstract: This paper takes stock of academic literature and official sources on post-accession compliance in Bulgaria and Romania, the only new member states where the Commission has preserved the right to monitor key reforms following accession. The data used in the analysis suggests that formal compliance with EU ...

programme evaluation of the pre-accession assistance to the twelve acceding EU Member States. The specific .... promote coherency in the programming process for PHARE as an 'accession-driven' instrument, the. EU .... standards now applied across the wider EU in terms of environmental protection and monitoring, food.

draws conclusions for interethnic relations in the future new member states of an enlarged. EU, thereby reflecting ... EU member states. II. What Minority Protection Policy Does the EU Have in the Accession Process? ... In its regular reports monitoring the progress made by the candidate countries in meeting the criteria of EU ...

The Czech Republic is one of the ten new members who joined the European Union on May. 1, 2004. Its 10.2 ... human rights and respect for and protection of minorities.1 The accession negotiations were successfully ... 1 The Comprehensive monitoring report on the Czech Republic's preparations for membership by the.

Nov 9, 2016 ... and the rule of law chapters 23 and 24. Serbia remained committed to its strategic goal of EU accession. It continued to implement the SAA, although a certain number of compliance issues remain. It is implementing an ambitious political and economic reform agenda. Serbia played a constructive role in the.

in Bulgaria and Romania, the only new member states where the Commission has preserved the right to monitor key reforms ... Patterns of EU rule adoption in the accession process of Bulgaria and Romania ....... 10. 3.2. .... monitor the countries' judicial systems and the fight against corruption and may invoke. ' safeguard ...

Appendix VII: Replies to ODIHR's Questionnaire from OSCE Participating States ( 2006). 67 ... Council of Europe. CPRSI. Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues. CRE. Commission for Racial Equality (United Kingdom). ECHR. European Convention for the ...... 23 “Monitoring the EU Accession Process: Minority Protection”,.

Roma exclusion and poverty received much attention in the recent EU enlargement process, when minority protection was articulated as a criterion for accession. ('Copenhagen criteria'),5 with the European Commission monitoring the fulfilment of the criteria by candidate countries.6 Albania and Serbia seek to join the EU, ...

Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies ... for the candidate to become a functioning EU Member. State. Through the so-called “pre-accession strategy”,1 the Union has forged a member-state making ..... monitoring process, the Commission shall also draw on input from Member States and take into consideration.

Feb 29, 2008 ... 2.3.3 Case Selection. .... proposed research project investigates the sustainability of minority protection rules in the new EU member .... 2.1 State of the Art. The study of minority protection in the context of EU enlargement can be related to three different strands of theoretically informed literature from the ...

Research project: “Democratization and Transnational Human Rights Regimes: A Case Study of Turkey and the European ... Turkey expert, European Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and non-Discrimination, European ..... The Impact of the European Union Accession Process on the Protection of Minorities in.

May 25, 2002 ... Monitoring the EU accession process : equal opportunities for women and men : country reports,. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,. Lithuania, Poland, Romania. 323.42094. Monitoring the EU accession process : minority protection. Vol.2: Case studies in selected member states 323.14.

Jan 23, 2002 ... Division and the European Union's European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia − .... Non-discrimination and equal treatment in the provision of health care form part of State ..... See Open Society Institute, —Minority Protection in the EU Accession Process“, CEU University Press, Budapest,.

Feb 9, 2016 ... Eurohealth Monitor. 33 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 34 NEWS. Quarterly of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies on Health Systems and ... and demand across European Union Member. States. The authors use the United Kingdom and. Portugal as illustrative case studies on the impact.

However, since EU accession to the ECHR is of fundamental importance for Europeans, and ... Protection of National Minorities; .... process. The Council of Europe will remain responsible for monitoring and for ensuring that its member states respect human rights. It will make regular evaluations in each of its 46 member.

rise and requires closer study and better understanding. .... 17 D. Kochenov, EU Enlargement and the Failure of Conditionality, The Hague: Kluwer 2009. ... Minority protection is one of the most sensitive areas, since any consensus on this issue among the Member. States is missing. Many of them do not recognize the idea ...

The European Union is founded on a set of common principles of democracy, the rule of law, ... after accession. EU history proved that this 'Copenhagen dilemma' was far from theoretical. EU. Member State governments' adherence to foundational EU values .... 'Outsourcing' the monitoring/enforcement of EU values .