Minority Rights – Towards Effective European Enforcement

Project: Research

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Ongoing crises like the return of war to Europe, economic hardships, and the illiberal challenge raise worries about minority-majority relations anew, while one can hardly expect the adoption of strong pro-minority reforms in the short run. Innovative solutions are needed that strengthen minority rights while remain politically realistic. European institutions have been experimenting with forms of collective redress, a remedy whose logic are relevant in the minority rights context. I argue that more reliance on collective redress should ensure better enforcement and can work independently from major pro-minority reforms. Aggregation of claims through collective enforcement can empower minorities, shaping the landscape of representation and agency, costs, evidence, and organization. Building on insights from early cases of minority reparation, e.g. Holocaust cases, and seeking to develop solutions that are applicable for a range of minorities, the research will focus on a limited set of cases: Roma and Hungarian minorities in Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania will be studied, also allowing to assess how collective redress mechanisms can play out amid rule of law challenges. The ultimate goal is to develop proposals on how European institutions could adopt regulation on collective redress mechanisms to promote more effective minority rights enforcement that bring tangible benefits in local settings.

The research 'MINOTEE: Minority Rights – Towards Effective European Enforcement' is a Maria Skłodowska-Curie project funded by the European Union under grant number 101110729 — MINOTEE — HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01.
AcronymMINOTEE
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/09/2331/08/25

Keywords

  • minority rights
  • collective redress
  • ethnic bargaining
  • legal procedures
  • empowerment

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