This timely Research Handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of research on ethno-cultural minority issues at the supranational level of the EU. It delivers a state-of-the-art review of the EU’s approaches to development and institutional implementation of minority policies from the Treaty of Rome until today.

Contents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union 1 Tove H. Malloy and Balázs Vizi PART I THE POLITICS OF THE ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE 2 The Treaties and minority rights 16 Rainer Hofmann and Moritz Malkmus 3 Fundamental rights and racial and cultural minorities in the EU: carving out a mandate to protect ‘Others’ 38 Kyriaki Topidi 4 Fundamental rights and non-EU minorities: from an ambiguous concept to an integrated society? 62 Roberta Medda-Windischer and Katharina Crepaz 5 The Court of Justice of the European Union and ‘minorities’ 84 Kristin Henrard 6 European Union law and international minority rights law 112 Norbert Tóth PART II THE POLITICS OF DECISION-MAKING AND POLICY-MAKING 7 The European Parliament, the Council and the European Council 128 Noémi Nagy and Balázs Vizi 8 The European Commission and minority rights 144 Tawhida Ahmed 9 Enlargement and minority politics: the unravelling of the EU’s transformative power? 162 Tove H. Malloy 10 The democratization efforts 190 Petra Lea Láncos PART III THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY 11 Linguistic diversity and language rights 211 Jose Ramón Intxaurbe Vitorica and Eduardo Ruiz Vieytez 12 The cultural policy of the European Union 230 Miklós Király 13 European Union Roma policy: under construction 250 Melanie H. Ram PART IV THE POLITICS OF COHESION 14 European Union regional policy and national minorities 272 Tamara Hoch 15 Between dynamic practice and normative limits: minorities and debordering processes in the European Union 289 Alice Engl 16 Special territories in the European Union 309 Maria Ackrén 17 Problem territories and internal peace: minority nations and ‘internal enlargement’ in the European Union 330 Tove H. Malloy PART V THE POLITICS OF EXTERNAL ACTION 18 Minority rights and European Union conditionality in the Western Balkans: from external to internal politics? 347 Maria Dicosola 19 The ‘near abroad’: the European Union, minority rights and the Eastern neighbourhood 365 Graham Donnelly and Federica Prina 20 The European Union and global development cooperation: promoting minority rights? 398 Laia Pau Romaní and Joshua Castellino Index