Re: Romania Confronts Transylvanian Separatism

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Subject: Re: Romania Confronts Transylvanian Separatism

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Re: Romania Confronts Transylvanian Separatism


I have several amendments to the STRATFOR view of the events...

The strongest regards the claim that 'the devolution argument, while
framed in economic terms, has clear ethnic overtones as Transylvania
is home to a large population of ethnic Hungarians'. We may say this
is the first of such documents in which the 'ethnic overtones' are not
so obvious. Anyway, the document just suggests 'starting a debate that
could lead to' devolution.

Most signatories of the document as revealed by the press already
denied having signed it.

This happened precisely because the Romanian officials view it as the
STRATFOR analysis views it - and that includes the president who got
elected in November 1996, on a pro-decentralization platform. Two
years and a half after the elections replaced socialist governments
and president (1989-1996) with a more liberal coalition, a law that
slightly favours decentralization is still to be debated in the
Chamber of Deputies.
 
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