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Minority Rights in Croatia – From Independence of Croatia until 2010

The aim of this paper is to present minorities' protection in Croatia from independence till recently, to line the most important challenges in the process and problems in implementation of legal solutions. The Republic of Croatia has passed through a turbulent period of ethnic and political strains from independence till recent days. All European integrations were conditioned by implementation of quality minorities' protection, especially with concerns to Serbian national minority. Croatia fulfilled the challenges in the 1990s primarily due to political pressure. A different approach followed democratic changes in 2000. The most radical breakthrough was the Constitutional Law on the Rights of Minorities in 2002 which regulated minorities' protection in the proper way. Its implementation was not completely satisfactory, especially at local and regional levels. After pressures from the central government after 2008, there have been no major flaws in implementation of minorities' protection in the Republic of Croatia.

Croatia, Minority Rights, Norm implementation.

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