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Press release
The Cultural Union of Romanians in Hungary (UCRU) regrets that
Romanian
community in Hungary has become once more a tool of political
disputes between
Romania and Hungary. As humans that daily live our fate of
ethnic minority community
we express our solidarity with other ethnic minority communities
that live in another
country. We believe, however, that it is a big mistake if any
politicians are using the
issue of nationality as their daily interest dictates. We are
puzzled also because at the
problems recently listed by the Romanian Foreign Minister, Mr.
Titus Corlean,
Budapest answered only with generalities, focusing on the
unnecessary comparison of
the situation of ethnic Romanians in Hungary and the ethnic
Hungarians in Romania.
Nobody denies that Hungary has created 19 years ago, a legal
background inrepresenting the interests of ethnic nationalities in
the country, but in the case of the
ethnic Romanians in Hungary, this does not work as expected.
Since the election of
nationality, organized in 1998, more people that do not belong
to the Romanian
community in Hungary are elected in the Romanian local
self-government bodies.
Since 2006, through the ethno-business phenomenon, these people
that do not belong to
our community reach the self-governing bodies of Romanian
community in Hungary.
Thus it happen that the statement made by the Romanian Foreign
Minister was
assessed in the Hungarian press by someone who is not of
Romanian ethnicity.Perhaps such a system of self-government, full
of contradictions, is something that
not even Hungary would want for the ethnic Hungarian communities
beyond theborders of Hungary. We strongly reject the allegations
which appeared in several
media channels in Hungary, which suggests that civil
organizations, established torepresent the interests of Romanians
in Hungary, would raise walls between the two
countries.
It is undeniable that in Hungary there are schools and churches
for the Romanian
ethnics, but beyond statistics, often viewed through
rose-colored glasses, the bitter
reality hides. The Romanian Orthodox churches (parts of the
cultural heritage of
Hungary) are in a deplorable state, Orthodox priests receive
their salaries several
months late and civil associations of Romanian ethnics are
insufficiently funded,
reaching the operation limit. At public administration level,
the Romanians in
Hungary do not have any specialist to represent their
interests.
The Cultural Union of Romanians in Hungary, as an umbrella
organization of
the Romanian civil sphere in this country, expresses sincere
hope that through joint
efforts the two countries will be able to analyze the real
problems of the Romanian
institutions in Hungary and, as a result of bilateral
negotiations, will revert on common
decisions and on the fulfillment of these decisions. We also
hope that Hungary will
follow, as soon as possible, their own vows made for the
Romanians in Hungary,
such as for example the real support of scientific life and the
support of the press
in Romanian language in Hungary.
Gyula, August 17, 2012 the Presidium of the Cultural Union of
Romanians in Hungary
