Állampolgársága végképp eltörölve? A hontalanság évei Szlovéniában a Kurić és társai kontra Szlovénia ügy apropóján

Absztrakt

Slovenia is thought to be a success story as the first independent republic after the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. However, the secession did not go as smoothly as seen from the outside. According to the official figures 25 671 persons, who did not become Slovenian citizens, were secretly „erased” from the civil registry in 1992, thus becoming de iure or de facto stateless. All these people were formerly federal citizens of Yugoslavia who emigrated from other republics and settled down in Slovenia. After 20 years of „erasure”, on 26 June 2012 the European Court of Human Rights found that Slovenia violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights. In the Kuric and others v. Slovenia case, the Court issued a pilot judgement and asked the Slovenian Government to set up a compensation scheme for the „erased” people within one year. The Slovenian Parliament adopted the law on compensation on 21 November 2013. This article analyses the events and the laws concerning the secession, the judgement of the Court, and the future of the „erased” persons in the light of the compensation law.