Claire Loucks: Minority rights rhetoric adopted by the EU throughout the 1990s was inconsistently applied with an insistence upon protections in Central and Eastern Europe as part of membership criteria, which was not matched by an internal application of such demands.
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While it is not a member, Switzerland’s “Minaret Moment” could have happened anywhere within the EU, as several member states are moving in a similar direction. ++ If the Lisbon Treaty is the greatest success, then the non-integration of the Muslim minority is the greatest failure of the political elite. ++ Perhaps if voters had more of a say in the immigration policies of the Union in the
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