Expecting Too Much: European Union's Minority Protection Hide-and-Seek
Journal: Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast)
Year: 2016

EU’s deference to the Member State approaches in minority protection can intensify the oppression of<br/>the vulnerable groups, its insistence on non-discrimination on the basis of nationality in the minority regions with special rights in place can equally produce injustice. Its inability to protect EU-wide minorities, like the Roma, is equally problematic. Although a ‘value’, minority protection functions incoherently, if at all. It is time to approach the EU as a highly specific minority prot