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Special Legal Solutions for Minority Territorial Autonomies in European States

Author(s): Gyula Fábián
Subject(s): Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Law
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: minority; autonomy; Transylvania; ethnicity-based territorial autonomy

Summary/Abstract: Most states that “woke up” after the end of the First World War to have ethnic or national minorities living on their enlarged territory now grant them territorial autonomy – see the case of Italy, Serbia, Finland, and Russia, while other states such as Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania are “for the time being” either unwilling to address the issue or reject it, the more they have developed a kind of psychological idiosyncrasy in this area. After introducing the concept, characteristics and principles of ethnicity-based territorial autonomy, the study presents some special legal solutions for the functioning autonomies of Gagauzia, South Tyrol, and Tatarstan, which can also be applied to a future Hungarian territorial autonomy in Transylvania.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 52-64
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Hungarian