How good is the framework of minority rights in the countries in the Western Balkans and how well can minorities use these rights to preserve their identity, culture and language? FUEN‟s Minorities in the Western Balkans conference proposed to answer these questions focusing on the areas of institutional models, education, political participation and discussing discrimination, and the debates showed that there is a great variance not only by countries, but between minorities living in the same country and even between members of the same community. „It is easy to be a Czech in Daruvar, but it is much harder in Zagreb or Osijek”, as one of the participants put it.