THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE ROMA PEOPLE

Abstract

Every country has national, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities within
its borders. When one talks about these minorities in Albania, the issue appears as a
redundant topic but also abstract, to many others. Albania began its path to form
its democratic state only after 90 years. The legal system of that time should be
modified in accordance to the established international standards based on
international instruments. Among the main objectives, the most important was the
creation of human rights standards, closely related to the rights of minorities, which
is the purpose of reference of this paper. In this paper there will be giving the
example of the situation of the different minority rights in Albania and describing
the measures taken by the Albanian Governments to accomplish the international
standards.
I will give a short description on the Republic of Albania, about the typology
of minorities and the minority groups, with the aim to make clear what kind of
minorities do exist in Albania and what attention that was paid to them.
This paper describes and analyzes the international standards and examines
the gaps that are in it, where the most important thing is to analyze the
implementation of these rights. At the end of the work there will be summarized
some conclusions and recommendations, bearing in mind that the primary
responsibility is to ensure the respect, protection and fulfillment of minority rights
within the country.