Report on EU law and the division of competences between Finland and Åland
Report 1-2016:EU-rätten och behörighetsfördelningen mellan riket Finland och landskapet Åland(EU law and the division of competences between the state of Finland and the autonomous region of Åland) Anna-Lena SjölundNo. 1-2016 When Finland and Åland joined the EU they both gave up elements of their own legislative competences in favour of the EU. At the same time it was concluded that the EU-membership would not change the division of competences between Åland and Finland. In reality, the issue has proven to be more complex and EU-membership has on several occasions raised the question as to how the division of competences between Åland and Finland should be interpreted when it comes to implementation of EU law. The report, published in Swedish, can be downloaded for free here. An information sheet with information in Swedish and English, can be downloaded here.
Spiliopoulou Åkermark at OSCE conference on minorities held in The Hague
On 20-21 April, Research Director Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark took part in the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of The Hague Recommendations Regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities, organized by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Astrid Thors, in The Hague. The two-day conference, brought together 180 government representatives, experts, teachers, education professionals, non-governmental actors and other local and international stakeholders active in the field of education, conflict prevention and peace-making to discuss the challenges in adapting education systems to ethnically diverse societies. Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark took part in a high-level panel discussion on the role education when building sustainable diverse societies, together with Srđan Verbić, Minister of Education of Serbia, Ketevan Tsikhelashvili, First Deputy State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality of Georgia as well as professor Jan de Groof from Belgium. During the conference, Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark also met with PhD-candidate Sarah Stephan, former Researcher at the Åland Islands Peace Institute and currently employed as a Project Officer with HCNM, co-ordinating a research project focusing on the role of minorities as bridge builders, conducted in co-operation with The European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) and European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). In a short film, published on the […]