The Development and Functioning of Cultural Autonomy in Hungary

This case study considers the minority policy and cultural autonomy developed after the transition in Hungary as a complex process of decision making in which several interests and concepts compete with one other. From the point of view of minorities, it examines both the achievements and problems. It also examines whether or not the political–legal solutions of the two determinative laws, the 1993 minority law and its 2005 overall amendment, completely meet the demands of the minority communities. I argue that certain demands have been met whilst others have remained unfulfilled.