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THE CONFERENCE:
CONVENING THE EXPERTS IN 2004
End of January 2004, 12 weeks before the enlarged Union became a fait accompli a dozen outstanding experts in the area of European integration and minority protection presented their ideas in Bozen/Bolzano about how the enlarged Union should approach the countless minorities living on its substantially enlarged territory. The conference resulted in a set of academic analyses and policy relevant recommendations (what has come to be called "Bolzano/Bozen declaration"), to be published by LGI.
I. THE EUROPEAN UNION AS MONITORING BODY
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1997-2003: THE EXPERIENCE SO FAR
Chairman: Joseph Marko
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Monitoring and the assessment of the needs of minority groups
Rachel Guglielmo
Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights & Conflict Resolution,
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (USA). She formerly served as Director of the "EU Accession Monitoring Program" (EUMAP). |
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Assessing the European Commission's monitoring exercise
Gwendolyn Sasse
Lecturer at the London School of Economics. She specializes in the field
of Eastern enlargement and minority protection. Currently, she is a
JM Fellow at the EUI Florence.
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2004:
THE TRANSITION
Chairman: Gabriel N. Toggenburg
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Whether and how to substitute the monitoring process vis-à-vis the candidate states with a new internal EU policy?
Frank Hoffmeister
Legal expert who, after working for the DG enlargement, joined the Legal Service of the European Commission. He was also a researcher at the Walther Hallstein Institut. |
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Respondent:
Peter Hilpold
Professor of International and European law at the University of Innsbruck |
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II. TOWARDS AN EU (MINORITY) LANGUAGE POLICY?
Chairman: Gabriel N. Toggenburg
Round table discussion:
Minority languages and the EU's policy
on linguistic diversity
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Bojan Brezigar
President of EBLUL (Brussels) and
chief editor of Primorski Dnevnik
(Slovenian minority daily in Trieste). |
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Bruno de Witte
Professor of European Law at the
European University Institute, Florence.
He has worked for years on the protection
of minorities and the diversity of
languages within the EU system. |
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Boris Tsilevich
Member of the Parliament of Latvia
and founder and consultant of MINELRES
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III. MINORITY PROTECTION IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE EU AND ITS MEMBER STATES
Chairman: Gabriel N. Toggenburg
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The Constitutional Resources for an EU Minority Protection Policy
Bruno de Witte
Professor of European Law at the European University Institute, Florence. |
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Respondent:
Roberto Toniatti
Professor of comparative public law and Dean of the Law faculty
of the University of Trento. |
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IV. DESIGNING THE FUTURE INTERPLAY:
OSCE - CoE - EU
Chairman: Joseph Marko
V. THE EU: NEW CLOTHES FOR THE NEW MINORITIES?
Chairman: Gabriel N. Toggenburg
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"New minorities" – what future status for
Third Country Nationals in the EU system?
Steve Peers
Professor at Essex University and a member of its Human Rights Centre. He is a well-established expert in the various aspects of the standing of third country nationals within the EU system.
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Respondent:
Stefan Oeter
Professor of public and international law at the University of Hamburg
and director of the Institute of International Affairs Hamburg.
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