The contribution explains the historical development of the political boundaries of Slovene states and the creation of minorities as political bodies in Slovenia and in the neighboring countries, as well as the creation of Slovene Diasporas in Europe and around the world. The ethnic development of Slovenes can only be understood within the context of the general ethno-national, political-territorial and socio-economic processes in Europe since the beginning of 19th century. In the treatise, we deal with ethnic minorities and minority policies as typical political heritage of Europe: the destiny, problem and challenge, but an advantage as well. Due to the size and importance of minorities, Slovenia count to the minority sensible countries. Legal and actual Protection of autochthonous minorities in Slovenia is normatively wide and realized consistently, while Slovene minorities in neighboring countries have much worse formal-political baseline.

In this article we analyze the unfavorable demographic, social, economic situation, which has been forming for 20 years in Ukraine and now is burdened with military actions. That’s provoking increasing a number of people, who having received disabilities and, as a result, need versatile rehabilitation. The state takes care of its defenders and their families. Defined at this article risks, unfortunately, impede rehabilitation, resettlement and reintegration of those who participated Anti-Terrorist Operation and members and their families.

The current globalization realty is characterized by the constant coming up of new identities, that are appearing at any scale, almost as a side-effect of parallel phenomena signifying increasingly cultural indeterminateness. This paper argues that this phenomenon is connected to a condition of periphericity, namely to a sense of vulnerability that arise outside the umbrella once provided by modern state; furthermore this paper argues that this phenomenon is indifferently affecting any culture, not considering ethnic and linguistic derivation. Such situation figures out a sort of paradox of the globalization, which, while extending the hegemony of a uniform code, would induce per reaction the flourishing of local cultures, sometimes evidencing a self-referential character, other times configuring the main stain for a new territorial consciousness.

The article defines and characterizes the challenges and changes in regional policy after ten years of membership of Slovak republic in the European Union. It analyses and compares the aims, measures and benefits of EU regional policy towards given regions Trnava and Nitra. The article compares the approaches of Trnava and Nitra regions towards EU structural funds and how they used this opportunity for their development.

In 1916, Britain and France signed an agreement deals with the future division of the Ottoman Empire. This agreement, known as the Sykes – Picot Agreement, after its two designers, the British Sir Mark Sykes and the French François George Picot, is seen up today as the main act which created the modern Middle East and responsible for some of its problems. The article present here point to another act, the decision of the newly established League of Nation to create the Mandate System and , following it, the San Remo decision of April 1920 giving the Mandates concerning the Arab Middle East to France and Britain, as the main designer of the division of the Middle East to its present form.

The paper deals with the constitutional right of the residents of municipalities and territorial units, which entitles them to take part in the conduct of public affairs within the Slovak republic. The citizens can directly or indirectly participate in sustainable development and good governance due to legal arrangements, in particular, such as the local referendum, the municipality inhabitant’s assemblies, the right to petition, the right to file motions, suggestions and complaints with the municipality bodies, and etc. It focuses on the rights of the residents to comment and to be hear within the activities and actions of the municipal authorities, but not only within the administrative procedures, but also within the decisions making processes, which have the impact on the performance of their other rights.

The essence of the Ukrainian regional system of higher education as an object of the state administration under the conditions of transformation is defined. The direction and concept of the state policy of education regionalization are determined. The fundamentals of this concept are as follows: the purpose of its development is the formation of the system of the state administration of higher education that will provide the mobilization of internal resources of the higher educational institutions and regions for the development of higher education and the optimization of distribution of nationwide resources directed at the educational area based on the principles of efficiency and justice. Thus, it is important to solving of problem of financing of the branch of higher education.