Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010
Abstract
In 2004, the Council of Europe established, through an unprecedented method, the European Roma and Travellers Forum as a consultative assembley to represent Roma and similar groups on the pan-European level. The body has a uniue nature.
It has been established as a non governmental organisation, but it still functions as a body of the Council of Europe. Taking as a starting point the multilevel governance approach, the author applies distinct explanatory models - the ideational theory and republican liberalism at the international level and the transnational advocacy networks approach at the infranational level - to analyse these events.