Executive summary Minority rights have received increasing attention in recent decades, and are the subject of various international treaties and frameworks. Given the demographic complexity of the region and its recent turbulent history of ethnic relations, minority protection is of particular...

The European Year 2012 was, to a certain extent, a framework for raising awareness of the contribution that older people make to society and mobilising stakeholders and policymakers at all levels to promote active ageing and solidarity between generations.To coordinate its activities during the...

The paper analyses the likely political and economic impacts of Turkish membership of the EU for the Union itself. It asks whether Turkish accession can be managed in a similar way to that of other enlargements or whether critics are right that Turkey is too big, too poor, has too dangerous...

Care Home X is a long-term care unit with traditional elderly care wards but which also has psychiatric wards and a Swedish-speaking elderly care ward. In Finland arranging care for the elderly is the responsibility of the municipalities. The ward hosts/hostesses are in charge of various...