Review article
Some Political, Security and Legal Challenges: Dilemmas of Minority Issues in Europe
Neven Andjelic
orcid.org/0000-0003-1237-5662
; PhD, Regent’s University London
Abstract
The nation-state has been redefined, and yet issues that affect it in its current form have been left unchanged. Issues of refugees and migrations have not been legislated since 1951 at the global level and turn of the millennium at the EU level. National minorities are perceived as a threat in “new” Europe while international organisations that should help central and eastern European states are being controlled by the West and are acting in the primary interest of western countries. Duality is thus being reinforced and accentuated. The EU, Council of Europe and the OSCE are seemingly ignoring the process of significant racial, religious, cultural and civilizational change across Europe. Weaker states are therefore unprepared and unsupported to deal with their minority issues and especially with the issues of new migrations to Europe. National sovereignty is connected with the securitisation of minority issues, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe. The process benefits ethno-nationalist populists that form governments that often create political pressure and economic instability, thus pushing their citizens to emigrate to “old” Europe. The process of reacting and antagonising immigrants is being repeated, and the whole of Europe is facing a problem functioning liberal democracies could solve with reformed modus operandi of international organisations.
Keywords
Minority; Migration; Security; Populist; Nation-State
Hrčak ID:
236101
URI
Publication date:
23.3.2020.
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