The diploma paper discusses the issue of the erased on the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. In the beginning, the break-up of the SFRY and Slovenia's independence are described for easier understanding. With the independence of Slovenia, the difficulties with obtaining Slovenian citizenship began. Many citizens of the Republic of Slovenia were erased from the Register of Permanent Residents and were consequently deprived of their Slovenian citizenship. With the deletion the Republic of Slovenia has violated their human rights and fundamental freedoms, more precisely their rights to private and family life, education, property, social and medical safety, and market access. People who were erased, suddenly lived in the Republic of Slovenia illegally and had to hide from the police; the children were not able to attend education.
Because of the deletion, non-cooperation and unresponsiveness of different institutions in the re-acquisition of Slovenian citizenship, the erased appealed. A known case of the erased in Slovenia is Kurić and Others v. Slovenia, where the European Court of Human Rights decided in favour of the erased and found that the Republic of Slovenia is responsible for the infringement of their human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Constitutional Court has twice found that the deletion was unlawful and unconstitutional, but for a long time the Slovenian authority did not want to admit it; the Republic of Slovenia was forced to do so by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, which found that the deletion resulted in very serious human rights violations. The Slovenian authority therefore changed the legislation to eliminate the consequences of the deletion. In the new legislation it focused on the financial compensation to the erased, but forgot on the problems that individuals had because of the deletion from the Register of Permanent Residents of the Republic of Slovenia.
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