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- Title
BATI BALKAN ÜLKELERİNDE AZINLIK HAKLARI.
- Authors
AKINCILAR KÖSEOĞLU, Nihan
- Abstract
Even though the European Union (EU) does not have a common minority rights policy, it has adopted international minority rights agreements, especially created by the Council of Europe, as its minority rights policy and has put "the respect for and protection of minorities" as a condition (within the political conditionality of the Copenhagen criteria) for full membership. Through its conditionality, the EU forces candidate and applicant countries to provide both negative and positive rights to their minorities. The improvement of minority rights in three Western Balkan countries --Albania, Montenegro, Serbia -- which are all candidates to the EU constitute the main focus of this article. These three countries' legislative efforts regarding minority rights and their implementations are analyzed comparatively, as a result of which their Europeanization levels of minority rights are interpreted. In order to do that, EU harmonization regarding "Judiciary and Fundamental Rights" chapter of the acquis in both Albania, for which country the decision to start accession negotiations is taken on 24 March 2020, and Montenegro and Serbia, the accession negotiations of which still continue, is comparatively analyzed through the Commission's annual country reports. The main argument of the paper is that Albania, Montenegro and Serbia have similar Europeanization experiences in minority rights which pave the way to their possible EU memberships. It is concluded that the EU membership for Albania, Montenegro and Serbia do not have any significant obstacles in terms of meeting the minority rights part of the Copenhagen criteria.
- Subjects
SERBIA; MONTENEGRO; ALBANIA; LEGAL status of minorities; CONDITIONALITY (International relations); EUROPEAN Union; WESTERN countries; EUROPEAN Union membership; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Marmara: Journal of European Studies / Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020, Vol 28, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
1301-1359
- Publication type
Article