Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 22 pages, pdf Description: Countries in post-communist Europe have been pressured to adopt Western standards or models of multiculturalism and minority rights. Indeed, respect for minority rights is one of the accession criteria that candidate countries must meet to enter the European Union (EU) and NATO. Candidate countries are evaluated and ranked in terms of how well they are living up to these standards (see EU AccessionMonitoring Program OSI 2001).