The Hungarian Status Law: Nation Building and/or Minority Protection

edited by Zoltán Kántor, Balázs Majtényi, Osamu Ieda, Balázs Vizi, Iván Halász

Introduction (the editors)		.....	vii	127KB



I. Historical approaches				508KB
Chapter 1:	Post-communist Nation Building and the Status Law Syndrome in Hungary
	Ieda, Osamu	.....	3


Chapter 2:	The History of Relations Between Hungarian Governments and Ethnic Hungarians Living beyond the Borders of Hungary			308KB
	Bárdi, Nándor	.....	58



II. Social Scientific Approches				217KB
Chapter 3:	Citizenship and Ethnicity : The Hungarian Status Law
	Schöpflin, George	.....	87


Chapter 4:	Status Law and 'Nation Policy' : Theoretical Aspects			204KB
	Kántor, Zoltán	.....	105


Chapter 5:	The Hungarian Status Law: A New European Form of Transnational Politics?			348KB
	Stewart, Michael	.....	120


Chapter 6:	The Status Law: Hungary at the Crossroads			276KB
	Kis, János	.....	152


Chapter 7:	Fuzzing Citizenship, Nationalising Political Space: A Framework for Interpreting the Hungarian ‘Status Law’as a New Form of Kin-state Policy in Central and Eastern Europe			540KB
	Fowler, Brigid	.....	177


Chapter 8:	Dual Citizenship and Policies toward Kin-Minorities in East-Central Europe: A Comparison between Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Moldova			348KB
	Iordachi, Constantin	.....	239


Chapter 9:	Nationalist Strategies and European Integration			334KB
	Csergő, Zsuzsa – Goldgeier, James	.....	270


Chapter 10:	The Status Law in the Hungarian-Slovakian Context			128KB
	Kusý, Miroslav	.....	303



III. Legal approaches				220KB
Chapter 11:	Hungary’s Controversial Status Law
	Küpper, Herbert	.....	313


Chapter 12:	A New Regime of Minority Protection? Preferential Treatment of Kin-minorities under National and International Law			284KB
	Halász, Iván – Majtényi, Balázs – Vizi, Balázs	.....	328


Chapter 13:	The Kin-State and Its Minorities: Which European Standards? The Hungarian Status Law: Its Antecedents and Consequences			184KB
	Weber, Renate	.....	350


Chapter 14:	What Did the Venice Commission Actually Say?			122KB
	Sólyom, László	.....	365


Chapter 15:	Connections of Kin-minorities to the Kin-state in the Extended Schengen Zone			274KB
	Tóth, Judit	.....	371


Chapter 16:	The Hungarian Legislation on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries			210KB
	Gál, Kinga	.....	396


Chapter 17:	An Analysis of the ‘Act on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries’ and the Validity of Measures Protecting and Promoting the Culture and Identity of Minorities Outside Hungary			218KB
	de Varennes, Fernand	.....	411


Chapter 18:	The Characteristics of Cultural Minority Rights in International Law - With Special Reference to the Hungarian Status Law			342KB
	Felföldi, Enikő	.....	430


Chapter 19:	Legislative Aspects and Political Excuses: Hungarian-Romanian Disagreements on the ‘Act on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries’			218KB
	Varga, Attila	.....	461


Chronology		.....	475	280KB
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Documents		.....	497	376KB
	Hungarian Status Law	.....	499
1.	Act LXII of 2001 on Hungarians Living in Neighbouing States (in Hungarian, 19 June 2001)
2.	Act LXII of 2001 on Hungarians Living in Neighbouing States (19 June 2001)
3.	Act LXII of 2001 on Hungarians Living in Neighbouing States (the consolidated text inclusive of amendments passed by the Parliament on 23 June 2003)

	Hungarian Standing Conference	.....	528	275KB
4.	Closing Document of the Second Meeting of the Hungarian Standing Conference (Budapest, 12 November 1999)
5.	Final Statement of the 13-14 December 2000 Session of the Hungarian Standing Conference (Budapest, 14 December 2000)
6.	Declaration (Budapest, 27 June 2001)
7.	Final Statement of the Fourth Session of the Hungarian Standing Conference (Budapest, 26 October 2001)
8.	Final Statement of the Fifth Session of the Hungarian Standing Conference (Budapest, 17 July 2002)
9.	Final Statement of the Sixth Session of the Hungarian Standing Conference (Budapest, 17 November 2002)
10.	Final Statement of the Seventh Session of the Hungarian Standing Conference (Budapest, 24 May 2003)

	Bilateral Instruments	.....	546	218KB
11.	Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Hungary and the Government of Romania Concerning the Law on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries and Issues of Bilateral Co-operation (Budapest, 22 December 2001)
12.	Agreement between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Hungary (Bucharest, 23 September 2003)

	International Organizations	.....	550	499KB
	-Council of Europe-
13.	Report on the Preferential Treatment of National Minorities by Their Kin-state [CDL-INF (2001) 19, English only] (Strasbourg, 22 October 2001)
14.	Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. Preferential Treatment of National Minorities by the Kin-State: The Case of the Hungarian Law of 19 June 2001 on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries (‘Magyars’) [Doc. 9813] (Toshev, 22 May 2003)
15.	Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. Resolution 1335 (2003): Preferential Treatment of National Minorities by the Kin-state: The Case of the Hungarian Law on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries (‘Magyars’) (19 June 2001)
16.	Explanatory Memorandum to Resolution 1335 (Jürgens, 2003)
	-Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)-
17.	Sovereignty, Responsibility, and National Minorities (Rolf Ekéus, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Hague, 26 October 2001)
18.	High Commissioner Warns of Hungarian ‘Status Law’ Precedent. (Rolf Ekéus, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Hague, 24 June 2003)
	-European Union-
19.	Report on Hungary's Application for Membership of the European Union and the State of Negotiations (European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, 9 July 2001) (extracts)
20.	European Parliament Resolution on Hungary's Application for Membership of the European Union and the State of Negotiations, 5 September 2001 (extracts)
21.	European Commission Regular Report on Hungary’s Progress towards Accession 2001 (extracts)
22.	European Commission Regular Report on Hungary’s Progress towards Accession 2002 Günter Verheugen’s letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy (5 December 2002)
23.	Günter Verheugen’s Letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy, (5 December 2002)
24.	European Commission Comprehensive Monitoring Report on Hungary’s Preparations for Membership 2003 (extracts)

	Status Laws of Neighbouring Countries	.....	587	274KB
25.	Resolution on the Position of Autochthonous Slovene Minorities in Neighbouring Countries and the Related Tasks of State and Other Institutions in the Republic of Slovenia (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 35-2280/1996)
26.	Law No. 70/1997 from 14. February 1997 on Expatriate Slovaks and Changing and Complementing Some Laws
27.	Law 150/1998 Regarding the Support Granted to the Romanian Communities from All Over the World

Bibliography	........................................		604	237KB

Index	........................................		613	159KB

Authors	........................................		626