BOLZANO/BOZEN RECOMMENDATIONS ON NATIONAL MINORITIES IN INTER-STATE RELATIONS: SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CROATIA AND THE REGION

Ured visokog povjerenika nacionalnih manjina, tijelo Organizacije za europsku sigurnost i suradnju, krajem 2008. godine objavio je skupinu preporuka o pravu nacionalnih manjina u međudržavnim odnosima. U ovom članku analiziraju se okolnosti nastanka Bolzanskih preporuka, potom se predstavlja sadržaj Preporuka te se konačno analizira u kojoj su mjeri one već sadržane u manjinskim zakonodavstvima i politikama Hrvatske i nekoliko zemalja regije.The office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, body of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, published at the end of 2008 a set of recommendations dealing with the rights of national minorities in inter-state relations. In this paper circumstances related to the origins of Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations are analysed, subsequently the paper presents the content of the Recommendations, and finally, the paper analyses to what extent the Recommendations have been reflected in minority-related legislation and policies of Croatia and several neighbouring countries