NATIONAL MINORITIES IN THE CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BETWEEN SLOVENIA AND ITALY Cover Image

NATIONAL MINORITIES IN THE CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BETWEEN SLOVENIA AND ITALY
NATIONAL MINORITIES IN THE CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BETWEEN SLOVENIA AND ITALY

Author(s): Olga Moroz
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Public Administration, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Stat „Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu” din Cahul
Keywords: national minorities; Slovenia; Italy; cross-border cooperation; Euroregion; Interreg;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the role of the Italian minority in Slovenia and the Slovenian minority in Italy in cross-border cooperation between the two countries. The main theoretical approaches to the definition of such concepts as cross-border cooperation, boundary regions, Euroregions are set out. Empirical research is based on the analysis of the implementation of cross-border cooperation Interreg and appeals to three of its main factors affecting national minorities: the organization of functional and intensive cross-border mobility; stimulation cultural / ethnic affinity between populations on both sides of the border; supporting by institutional cooperation.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 40-50
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English