MINELRES: Romania: Ethnic Minority News Bulletin no. 9 (92) / March 15, 2004
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ROMANIAN RULING PARTY, UDMR SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT FOR 2004...
... AFTER GOVERNMENT APPROVES REERECTION OF LIBERTY MONUMENT
ROMANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADER DIES
ROMANIA'S HUNGARIAN PARTY WILL NOT SANCTION REBELS
SURVEY ON ILLITERACY, INCLUSIVELY AMONG MINORITIES
HUNGARIANS WORRIED ABOUT THE NEGATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC TENDENCIES IN THEIR
COMMUNITY
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ROMANIAN RULING PARTY, UDMR SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT FOR 2004...
BUCHAREST - The ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Hungarian
Democratic Federation of Romania (UDMR) on 9 March agreed to extend to
the end of 2004 their cooperation in parliament and at the county level,
RFE/RL reported. PSD Chairman Adrian Nastase, the current prime
minister, and UDMR Chairman Bela Marko said the agreement ensures
Romania's political stability, thereby serving the interest of EU
accession. Both sides pledge in the agreement to stifle any attempts to
encourage "extremist acts" by either Romanians or Hungarians. Nastase
said that the agreement on the "reconciliation park" in Arad will help
both sides overcome the "anxieties of the past." Marko said the protocol
includes a stipulation providing for fast-track negotiations on UDMR's
demand to have two Hungarian-language faculties established at the
Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj.
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... AFTER GOVERNMENT APPROVES REERECTION OF LIBERTY MONUMENT
BUCHAREST � The Romanian government on 5 March approved plans to reerect
the controversial Liberty Monument in Arad, RFE/RL reported. The
monument, which honors the Hungarian generals who were executed by the
Habsburgs in 1849, is to be placed in a "reconciliation park." The park
will also contain a triumphal arch depicting important Romanian historic
figures killed during the 1848 revolution. Hungarian Democratic
Federation of Romania (UDMR)
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ROMANIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADER DIES
BUCHAREST - Nicolae Cajal, the chairman of Romania's Jewish community
(FCER) died on 7 March following a long illness. Cajal was a professor
of virology at the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest. He
also chaired the Virology Institute of the Romanian Academy. Born in
Bucharest, he was elected to head Romania's small Jewish community in
1994 after the death of Rabbi Moses Rosen, who had led Romania's Jews
since 1948. Cajal had been conducting research in virology and had
published more than 400 medical studies in Romania and abroad. He was
also a member of the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
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ROMANIA'S HUNGARIAN PARTY WILL NOT SANCTION REBELS
CLUJ-NAPOCA � Hungarian Democratic Federation of Romania (UDMR) Chairman
Bela Marko said on 4 March that the party will not impose sanctions on
six UDMR lawmakers who, in defiance of the party's position, recently
submitted a draft law on territorial autonomy for regions inhabited by
the Szeklers, RFE/RL reported. According to Marko, the UDMR is "a large
and tolerant organization. Those who belong to this small group of
Szekler-autonomy supporters cannot make up their minds in what direction
to head. We are patient and allow them to solve their dilemmas and to
clarify their intentions." He said the UDMR will discipline the six only
if they set up a rival political organization. Meanwhile, UDMR Covasna
County branch Chairman Albert Almos said on 4 March that the UDMR will
not expel members who have decided to run in the June local elections on
the lists of the Hungarian Civic Union (UCM). Amos said the UCM members,
some of whom are also members of the UDMR, seek expulsion in order to
portray themselves as victims.
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SURVEY ON ILLITERACY, INCLUSIVELY AMONG MINORITIES
BUCHAREST � The highest percentage of illiterates, aged from 10 years
old up, is registered among the Roma minority, as indicates a survey of
the National Institute of Statistics. Roma register nationally 26.3 per
cent illiterates out of an entire number of 408.842 of persons, of whom
34.7 per cent is represented by the stay-at-home Roma in the
countryside. The next place in the top of illiterates is held by the
Turkish party, 23.7 per cent out of 26,837 persons, most of the
illiterates (33.7 per cent) being inactive stay-at-homes in the
countryside. The fewest illiterates register the Jews, out of 5,648
persons aged 10 and up only 8 are illiterate, which is 0.1 per cent.
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HUNGARIANS WORRIED ABOUT THE NEGATIVE DEMOGRAPHIC TENDENCIES IN THEIR
COMMUNITY
CLUJ-NAPOCA � High rate of mortality, migration and assimilation are the
major factors that induced the decrease of the ethnic Hungarian
population with about 190,000 persons in the past 12 years, as it can be
drawn up from the conference held last week in Cluj. Sociologist Veres
Valer, from "Babes-Bolyai" University in Cluj, stated on March 5 that in
his opinion about 100, 000 Hungarians have gone in the last decade
because of natural causes, yet deep ageing phenomenon is alarming for
the Hungarian community. Veres Valer pointed out that a consequence of
this phenomenon is also the decrease in birth rate. "In order to keep a
steady number of Magyars , there should be birth rate of 2.2 per cent,
yet it is of 0.6 per cent. Unless the causes of the population decreases
are changed, we risk in 2025 only 1,1 million Hungarians to be left in
Transylvania. This figure could decrease if the migration of the Magyars
to West Europe boosts ", also said Veres Valer.
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