BPE Makes Recommendation For Establishment Of ODIHR Group To Look At Barriers To Successful Integration Of Minorities
Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa (BPE)
Also at Gates of Vienna
INTERVENTION BY BURGERBEWEGUNG PAX EUROPA
OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
Working Session 1
Fundamental Freedoms I
Preventing aggressive nationalism
Warsaw, September 23, 2013
National Minorities – Integration
It is important to point out the practices that support effective integration of national minorities. To this end, I would like to mention Austria’s inclusive policy of providing access to goods and services such as extensive language course financed by the taxpayer – provided to its national minorities, newly arrived immigrants, and others.
However, despite all the financial support extended, certain groups display a persistent inability to integrate into the host society.
In addition to tax money, numerous other policies are in place to promote successful integration. The question thus remains: why do certain national minorities find integration so challenging?
We therefor recommend to ODIHR that a working group be established tasked with understanding what additional reasons, e.g. cultural and religious reasons, there might be for the lack of successful integration.
Sharia Watch UK