20.500.12556/DiRROS-28063 To Recognize or Not to Recognize? The Concept and Recognition of Minorities in Slovenia in Light of International Monitoring To Recognize or Not to Recognize? Despite Slovenia’s ethnically heterogeneous landscape, the Constitution recognizes only two groups as “autochthonous national communities”: the Hungarians and the Italians. Whereas the Roma also enjoy some constitutional protection, the most numerous ex-Yugoslav ethnic groups, also known as “new communities” (Albanians, Bosniaks, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, and Serbs), received legal recognition only recently. Neither the “new communities” nor the German-speaking population, however, benefit from the protection of the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities – regardless of the former’s substantial numbers and the latter’s historic presence on the territory of the State. This paper first gives a detailed overview of Slovenia’s legislation related to the concept of minorities and then evaluates it in light of the monitoring materials of the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention, as well as those of the UN treaty bodies. The aim of the paper is to assess whether the Slovenian system is in conformity with the international obligations of the State, at least from a conceptual point of view. Based on a thorough analysis of some 30 documents adopted by international monitoring bodies, the answer seems to be negative, which may come as a surprise when contrasted with the strong international reputation of the Slovenian system of minority protection. This paper demonstrates that Slovenia has been adamantly and repeatedly criticized for retaining the undefined and confusing concept of “autochthony”; for adopting a restrictive approach to the recognition and provision of special protection for different ethnic groups; for making unjustified and arbitrary distinctions between “autochthonous” and “non-autochthonous” Roma communities; and for the fact that it has still not managed to definitively resolve the issue of the “erased”. Kljub etnično heterogeni sestavi prebivalstva slovenska ustava kot »avtohtoni narodni skupnosti« priznava le Madžare in Italijane. Ustavno varstvo je v določeni meri zagotovljeno tudi Romom, medtem ko so bile najštevilčnejše etnične skupine z območja nekdanje Jugoslavije, tako imenovane nove skupnosti (Albanci, Bošnjaki, Hrvati, Makedonci, Črnogorci in Srbi), pravno priznane šele v zadnjih letih. Niti nove skupnosti niti nemško govoreče prebivalstvo pa ne uživajo varstva skladno z Okvirno konvencijo Sveta Evrope za varstvo narodnih manjšin – ne glede na številčnost prvih in zgodovinsko prisotnost drugih na ozemlju države. Članek uvodoma podaja podroben pregled slovenske zakonodaje, povezane z vprašanjem manjšin, ki jo nato ovrednoti v luči gradiv Svetovalnega odbora o Okvirni konvenciji ter organov Združenih narodov za nadzor nad izvajanjem mednarodnih pogodb. Namen prispevka je ugotoviti, ali je slovenski sistem vsaj na konceptualni ravni skladen z mednarodnimi obveznostmi države. Poglobljena analiza približno tridesetih dokumentov, ki so jih sprejeli mednarodni nadzorni organi, kaže, da temu ni tako, kar je presenetljivo glede na visok mednarodni ugled slovenskega sistema zaščite manjšin. Avtorica ugotavlja, da je bila Slovenija večkrat kritizirana zaradi ohranjanja nedoločenega in nejasnega koncepta avtohtonosti, restriktivnega pristopa k priznavanju in zagotavljanju posebnega varstva različnim skupinam, neutemeljenega in arbitrarnega razlikovanja med avtohtonimi in neavtohtonimi romskimi skupnostmi ter zaradi dejstva, da še vedno ni dokončno razrešila vprašanja izbrisanih. ethnic communities in Slovenia legal recognition autochthony UN treaty bodies Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities etnične skupnosti v Sloveniji pravno priznanje avtohtonost organi Združenih narodov za nadzor nad izvajanjem mednarodnih pogodb Svetovalni odbor o Okvirni konvenciji za varstvo narodnih manjšin true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2026-03-09 11:32:33 2026-03-09 11:32:33 2026-03-10 03:52:33 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 Ljubljana 0 Str. 255-283 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 323.15(497.4) 10.69070/2026_11 270935811 264592387 10.-Noemi-Nagy-To-Recognize-RAZNOLIKOST-IV.pdf 10.-Noemi-Nagy-To-Recognize-RAZNOLIKOST-IV.pdf 1 990054232DD150560AE2524AC007F882 124b88a357d95638342a380922a29207db2ce78488ae42b52caf4b10c61b82c7 49c86bb8-1ba3-11f1-b779-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=41438 https://inv.si/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/10.-Noemi-Nagy-To-Recognize-RAZNOLIKOST-IV.pdf 0 6580a4d4-1ba3-11f1-b779-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=41439 Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja 0 0 0