Badinter Commission

While autonomy already raises governments concerns, federal-type solutions are even more difficult to achieve nowadays. As was noted above, autonomy is often traded for an express renunciation of self-determination and a confirmation of the permanent territorial unity of the state. Where a more elevated status, such as that of a federal republic or constituent unit of a confederation or state union is concerned, the stability of such an arrangement is even more difficult to assure. " In fact, the recent recognition of the doctrine of constitutional self-determination has made this more complicated. The Badinter Commission attached to the EU peace process for the former Yugoslavia had found that ""... 

Michla Pomerance, The Badinter Commission The Use and Misuse of the International Court of Justice s Jurisprudence , 20... 

In the context of the EC, such imposition of additional criteria of recognition was used several times by the Badinter Commission, an arbitral body of experts established to deal with the various issues arising out of the Yugoslav crisis in... 

For a discussion of the Badinter Commission opinion on the legality of self-determination for the Bosnian Serbs, see Chapter 2. 

Pomerance, Michal, The Badinter Commission The Use and Misuse of the International Court of Justice s Jurisprudence, 20 Mich.J. Infl L., 32, 48 (1998) Prague Watchdog, Chechnya From a Pseudoreferendum to Pseudoelections, Jun. 6, 2003, available at www.watchdog.cz/ show=000000-000004-000001-000072 lang = 1... 

Opinion No. 1 of the Badinter Arbitration Commission, para. 1 (c), 31 International Legal Materials (ILM) (1992), 1497ff. 

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