CIAO DATE: 04/04

Legal Aspects of National Integration in Estonia and Latvia, Workshop of the ECMI Project Accession to the EU and National Integration in Estonia and Latvia

Introduction

In 2000, the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) initiated the Baltic Project "Accession to the EU and National Integration in Estonia and Latvia". In the framework of the project, one international seminar1 and several regional workshops were organized in 2000 and 2001. These events addressed different minority rightsrelated issues such as society integration and multiculturalism, state policies in the field of minority education and the use of minority languages, legislative reforms and the role of the third sector.

From 6 to 8 June 2002, in the Latvian resort town of Jurmala, the ECMI workshop "Legal Aspects of National Integration in Estonia and Latvia" was organized in order to monitor recent changes in the legislation concerning minority protection in both countries. The workshop gathered MPs, government officials and minority representatives from Estonia and Latvia and was an excellent forum of exchange of information on relevant problems and practices (see the programme and the list of participants of the workshop in the appendix).

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