nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20211207-022334-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 211206s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20211207-022334-0 doi eng 342 23 Nagy, Csongor István Author aut Questions of Integrity - The Commission’s “Founding Values” Policy and Ethnic Minorities Nagy, Csongor István Verfassungsblog 2021-12-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Many have rightly criticized the Commission for failing to robustly defend the EU’s founding values from academic freedom, to media freedom, to judicial independence, to the rights of refugees or the LGBT community. In these discussions, the Commission’s failure to take action against another form of discrimination is generally ignored: discrimination against national minorities. Looking at the example of Hungarian communities in other member states, this post highlights the Commission’s failure to defend ethnic or national minorities against discrimination. This is in stark contrast with the fact that the protection of and respect for minorities is a founding value of the EU, ranked equally to democracy, rule of law and human dignity. CC BY-SA 4.0 Beneš Decrees EU Commission Minority Protection Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/questions-of-integrity/ raw object