To Recognize or Not to Recognize?
Journal: DiRROS repository (University of Maribor)
Year: 2026

Despite Slovenia’s ethnically heterogeneous landscape, the Constitution recognizes only two groups as “autochthonous national communities”: the Hungarians and the Italians. Whereas the Roma also enjoy some constitutional protection, the most numerous ex-Yugoslav ethnic groups, also known as “new communities” (Albanians, Bosniaks, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, and Serbs), received legal recognition only recently. Neither the “new communities” nor the German-speaking population, however, bene