Impact of Europeanization on Minority Communities

KatharinaCrepaz investigates how two-dimensional ('top-down' and 'bottom-up')Europeanization processes affect minority communities by using acomparative approach, encompassing cases from both „old"(pre-2004) and „new" EU member-states. The author therebybridges two dichotomies made in the literature so far, and outlineshow Europeanization takes place in non-acquis areas. She does so bylooking at four very different case studies: the German-speakingminority in South Tyrol/Italy, the Bretons in France, the Germanminority in Silesia/Poland, and the Italian minority inIstria/Croatia.