ABSTRACT
This article addresses the question of how European integration shaped minority electoral strategies, which constitute the primary form of political mobilization among minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. Comparing six cases in five new member states of the EU – Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia; Russian‐speakers in Estonia and Latvia; Poles and Russian‐speakers in Lithuania – we find that minority voters across the region pool electoral resources behind specific political parties considered most likely to pursue minority interests; regardless of how they began organizing politically in the early 1990s. We identify three aspects of Europeanization with important indirect impact on these developments.
