The Institute for Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the European Centre for Minority Issues agree on a Memorandum of Understanding.

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Issue 2025/1 of REGIO was published

The full issue is available on the journal's website.

From the contents

Rural transitions

    Vegetable growers in the Aranyosszék

    Resources and communities in the mountains

German-Swabian heritage

    German-German dictionary of Hungary

    Language autobiographies

    German literature in Hungary after 1945

    German nationality kindergarten teacher, teacher and teacher training

Workshop  

    The situation of the Ladin community in South Tyrol

    Settlement census in Óbuda in the 1970s

The question of recognising new minorities in Hungary

The new open access article 'The question of recognising new minorities in Hungary' by Balázs Dobos is published online in the Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies and is available at HERE.

Abstract: Relatively little is known about what is probably one of the most frequent, yet often dubious attempts in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe to expand the official list of minorities that have been made by non-recognised groups in Hungary since the early 2000s. Moreover, there had also been several unsuccessful attempts even before the adoption of the country's 1993 Minority Act. Therefore, the major aim of the research is, after outlining the main features of the historical and political background, to present and analyse the attempts which aimed at achieving minority recognition, especially those made after the adoption of the minority law. In doing so, it examines the conceptualisation tendencies, the notions and conditions that applicants must meet, and the operationalisation practices that prevailed. Overall, the Hungarian case illustrates well that not all minorities considered as existing socially - based on self-identifications and objective criteria - meet the substantive and procedural legal requirements of the law. In other cases, both the declared individual affiliations and the existence of a group and of separate objective elements of identity are still challenged and the subject of professional and political debates.