Public usage of Italian is permitted and protected by minority protection laws.

There is a great discrepancy between minority protection systems in the ten new and the fifteen old Member States.

This will concern the implementation of the decentralisation measures and the critical issue of minority protection.

The Slovenes in Italy lacked any minority protection under international or domestic law.

The Serbs in Kosovo should take this opportunity and make use of this minority protection.

The ideal answer is the kind of democratic federalism, with strong minority protections, that the Shiites consistently reject.

These issues are being resolved at present, but are currently in violation of a number of international minority protection standards.

Slovenia does have high minority protection standards and we just wish that Slovenian minorities living in our neighbouring countries had similar rights.

'Minority protection' refers to the overall situational and policy framework in which these minority rights are embedded.

The Serb central authorities’ attitude to this serious situation fundamentally contradicts general human rights and clashes with the standards of the European minority protection.

Another predicament is that the EU lacks minority protection standards and an adequate monitoring system, as these are not part of the .

Importantly, minority protection will only be effective when both majority and minority groups have incentives to adhere to the established institutions and rights.

Mr. de Klerk still insists that minority protections for whites be written into a new constitution and has promised them a referendum to approve it.

It is among rare media supporters of Serbian NGO activities towards human rights and minorities protection.

His stance includes allowing whites to have minority protection on the basis of language, religion or nationality, but not on the basis of race.

Old Member States ought to catch up with the new Member States in respect of minority protection.

The Study Visit Program is dedicated to report on minority protection and cultural diversity issues within the context of the European Integration process.

The second was Romania's enactment in early August of minority protection statute that was more liberal than Hungary had expected.

Neoconservatism drew from Liberalism its intense focus on the promotion of "universal values", in this case democracy, human rights, free trade, women's rights and minority protections.

Plural means guarantee of the existence of various culture, freedom of speech, no discrimination, minority protection, freedom of religion.

The new constitution had many provisions regarding minority protection and in particular guaranteed the right to mother tongue education and free development of culture for all national minorities.

The judging criteria for the prizes are high journalistic quality and coverage of topics related to minority protection, European integration and promotion of cultural diversity.

The recapitalization includes a "minority protection" feature intended to help insure that the two classes of stock trade at approximately equal market prices, Miss Hefner said.

These self-appointed high priests know that not all Republicans, even right-wing Republicans, agree with them about abortion, Medicare, minority protection or the anti-immigrant drive.

This chapter contains a section on minorities and minority protection in candidate and potential candidate countries, including the Western Balkan countries.