LEGAL MINORITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND ABUSES

Zaklina Spalevic; Jelena Belović; Stefan Zdravković

doi:10.51738/kpolisa.2025.1r.002

Authors

Zaklina Spalevic Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Belgrade, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8502-2038
Jelena Belović Faculty of Law, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9039-4178
Stefan Zdravković Faculty of Business and Law, Belgrade, Serbia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0047-3356

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51738/kpolisa.2025.1r.002

Keywords:

National minorities, European Union, social justice, hate speech, abuses

Abstract

The rights of national minorities within the EU member states represent an important and current issue that attracts the attention of many researchers. The EU strives to support national minorities through its conventions and projects, aiming to provide them with economic security, social justice, and, above all, living conditions that enable them to function normally. The subject of this study is the analysis of the conventions through which the EU seeks to improve the status of national minorities, as well as an analysis of models that recommend specific activities and efforts needed to ensure that national minorities have regular access to employment, healthcare, economic prosperity, family formation, parental support, and all other aspects that would enhance tolerance and respect for national minorities in multicultural environments. The study also examines how artificial intelligence, and statistical models could detect hate speech directed at national minorities, and how the level of such hate speech can be reduced and negative consequences prevented. Finally, the study provides predictions about what the EU can expect in the future to ensure that national minorities in all countries achieve equality with the rest of the population, offering numerous useful legal, social, and economic implications.

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