The Issue Brief 39 gives a general outline of current economic and political challenges in Moldova. Focusing on four key challenges specifically relevant to ethnic minorities, the Brief discusses matters from the scope of institutional, policy and legal frameworks and ethno-cultural governance. More...

Every year the ECMI organizes a number of events in Flensburg as well as other locations. Conferences, seminars, workshops,  lectures and other types of events are usually announced ahead of time on ECMI homepage and social media platforms. More...

The Conference will gather experts and prominent scholars on national minority issues and will focus on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). The event marks the 20^th anniversary of the FCNM and the launching of a new publication titled “The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: A Commentary”, edited by Rainer Hofmann, Tove H. Malloy and Detlev Rein (Brill, 2018). More...

“The Minority SafePack is very important in the current situation in Europe, where national minorities are often neglected, especially in EU policies and programmes,” says the ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove Malloy, highlighting the importance of the initiative. More...

Between 19 and 23 March 2018 the ECMI team will teach at the University of Swansea in Wales, UK. The ECMI course on ‘The European Minority Rights and Minority Protection Regime’ will be a part of the curriculum of the LLM in Human Rights Programme at the College of Law and Criminology (Coleg y Gyfraith a Throseddeg). The course will be taught as an intensive one week block module. More...

The ECMI Study #9 with a title “Policy and Legislative Challenges to Non-Discrimination, Minority Protection and Diversity Issues in Ukraine” is authored by Iryna Solonenko, independent scholar, and DGAP Fellow. More...

The ECMI Working Paper #104 with a title “Drafting Domestic Legislation Provisioning National Minority Rights: The Dos and Don’ts According to the Council of Europe” is authored by Ljubica Djordjević, Tove H. Malloy, and Stanislav Cernega. The paper offers an overview of technical as well as substantive matters in relation to the procedures of drafting domestic legislation on national minority rights. More...

Some of the main achievements and results of the initiative include the establishment of the Office for Minority Issues in Bijelina (BiH), the creation of a Platform for Social Dialogue and Cooperation in Tetovo (FYROM), trainings on monitoring and the implementation of a Roma and Ashkhali action plan in Ferizaj/Urosevac and Prizren (Kosovo), and the publication of a Handbook on Minority Institutions in Schleswig-Holstein and educational info-sheets on selected topics. More...

In 2018 the European Framework Convention for the Protection on National Minorities celebrates its 20 year anniversary. The ECMI marks the anniversary with a new ECMI InFocus Publication with the title “20 Years of Dealing with Diversity: Is the Framework Convention at a Cross-Road?” The publication is a collection of over 20 interviews with prominent experts and members of national minorities, and highlights the past, present and future expectations of the FCNM. More...