Research Symposium "Minorities and the EU Eastern Enlargement"

Venue: Tartu (Estonia)
Period: Jun. 14-15, 2012

The Research Symposium "Minorities and the EU Eastern Enlargement" is organized by the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu. The Symposium will be held on June 14-15, 2012.
Prominent international scholars and researchers will participate to the conference, which will touch upon a variety of issues related to minorities and the European Union enlargement policy towards Eastern Europe. During the eight panels will focus on minority languages and their protection, the status and rights of Romanis in Eastern Europe, diversity management and multiculturalism in Europe. Moreover, the EU conditionality policy towards the Balkans will be discussed, as well as the issues such as mobility, the role of ethnicity and the evolution of nation states.
The Research Symposium will be closed by the keynote speech of George Schöpflin, Member of the European Parliament for Hungary and formerly Jean Monnet Professor of Politics, University College London.

Participants are required to register in order to attend the Research Seminar ""Minorities and the EU Eastern Enlargement". The online registration procedure is available at this page.

Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS), University of Tartu
address: Lossi street 36
Tartu (Estonia)
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