MINELRES: Romania: Bulletin DIVERS on Ethnic Minorities - 47(175)/2005
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Divers Bulletin no. 47 (175) / December 12, 2005
News
PARTIES OF THE RULING ALLIANCE SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
ETHNIC HUNGARIAN TEACHERS WITH UBB ASK THE SETTING UP OF THREE HUNGARIAN
FACULTIES IN THE UNIVERSITY
ETHNIC ROMA JOBLESS IN MEHEDINTI ARE BEING HELPED
PROJECT TO CONNECT TO THE DRINKING WATER SYSTEM FOR THE ETHNIC ROMA IN
SIGHISOARA
CNCD AWARDS THE DIVERSITY IN SPORTS
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PARTIES OF THE RULING ALLIANCE SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
BUCHAREST � The law draft on the statute of the national minorities will not be
passed by the Chamber of Deputies until the spring of 2006. The Standing Bureau
of the Chamber agreed on Monday, December 5, with the request of the Juridical
Commission, to extend the deadline on submitting the report on the law draft
regarding the statute of the national minorities by December 22. This supposes
the debates resuming as of next year.
The same day, the leaders of the Ruling Alliance decided that the liberals and
the democrats should establish a joint commission expressing the amendments of
the Alliance to the statute of the minorities based on the recommendations of
the Venice Commission.
The democrat deputy Cristian Radulescu said, subsequent to the session of the
leadership of the Ruling Alliance, the leaders of the parties with the majority
concluded a protocol to support this law draft and to introduce the
recommendations in Venice in the text of the law draft.
Hence, the opposition within the Ruling Alliance to the law draft is
increasing. PD president, Emil Boc, thinks that Romania should not become an
experiment for inexistent rights and to adopt a law on the statute of the
national minorities offering "supra-standards in the field". Boc stated on
Tuesday, December 6, during a press conference at Cluj, the way this law draft
is passed will be highlighted in Europe.
"Other countries are monitoring this law as regards its implications on the own
national minorities. Therefore, Romania should comply with the international
standards and should not be an experiment for inexistent rights. I do not
believe we need supra-standards in the field of minorities� rights", Boc added.
On his turn, UDMR leader Marko Bela said that PD�s different stand on this
issue "risks mixing up the agreement of the leaders with the Ruling
Alliance". "If some of the leaders of the Ruling Alliance do not agree with
supporting some projects undertaken through the governing program, they are
free to leave the Ruling Alliance", Marko said.
"We expect PD�s opinion and reasons as well as the democrats� opinion on UDMR
amendments made based on the recommendations of the Venice Commission", Marko
Bela stressed out. He confessed the reason he got upset with his colleagues
with the Alliance is connected to the fact that "in a normal political life, a
promise is a promise".
"We have an agreement with the presidents of the parties within the Ruling
Alliance to support the Statute of the minorities in the Government draft and I
am not aware of something having changed since then. I believe the
representatives of the Ruling Alliance must be strong enough to prevent the
eventual tensed situation triggered by this law draft", Marko Bela added.
Author: DIVERS
ETHNIC HUNGARIAN TEACHERS WITH UBB ASK THE SETTING UP OF THREE HUNGARIAN
FACULTIES IN THE UNIVERSITY
CLUJ-NAPOCA � Almost 150 teachers with the ethnic Hungarian department within
Babes-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca asked its management to establish,
as of academic year 2006-2007, the faculties of Botanical Sciences, Humanist
Sciences and Social Sciences, taught in Hungarian language. The academic lector
Kovacs Lehel, member of the Bolyai Group of Initiative, announced on Tuesday,
December 5, during a press conference, the faculties should have 15 departments.
He said that to start with, the teachers who are currently a part of the
department teaching in Hungarian language would be included, with no contest,
in the structure of the three faculties. The three newly-established faculties
would sign a strategic partnership protocol with the faculties teaching in
Romanian language in which it is regulated the way to ensure the human
resources for the joint organization of programmes of doctorate and the
research centers. According to Lehel Kovacs, UBB Senate must answer the request
on the faculties� establishment by end-January next year. Within UBB, the
Hungarian department includes 220 teachers, 179 of whom were questioned on the
establishment of the three faculties.
Author: DIVERS
ETHNIC ROMA JOBLESS IN MEHEDINTI ARE BEING HELPED
DROBETA-TURNU SEVERIN � Labor Force Recruitment County Agency (AJOFM) Mehedinti
in southern Romania started on December 2, a program on monitoring the jobless
ethnic Roma. In the ten communities of this ethnics in Mehedinti county, which
is unofficially gathering 16 thousands persons, AJOFM officials will evaluate
their social status and will get them involved in training classes on the
trades requested by the economic operators in the rural areas. "According to
the accounts submitted by the city halls within the living area of the ethnic
Roma, about 35% are looking for a job. Some of the mayors asked for subsidies
to establish almost 180 jobs, but these efforts are not enough to solve the
problem in the labor market in Mehedinti", according to AJOFM Mehedinti
director, Gheorghe Clement. AJOFM Mehedinti has been traced 100 vacant jobs and
decided to qualify and re-qualify the non-compensated jobless persons in 12
short-term classes.
Author: DIVERS
PROJECT TO CONNECT TO THE DRINKING WATER SYSTEM FOR THE ETHNIC ROMA IN
SIGHISOARA
SIGHISOARA � The ethnic Roma in Sighisoara, Mures county (central Romania),
will receive on Holidays, from the city hall, aids consisting in clothes, food
and gifts for children.
About 630 ethnic Roma families are living in Sighisoara, throughout eight
collectivities in the municipal. They have a low living standard, most of the
ethnic Roma persons having no job, no identity card, are living in concubinage
and are frequently abandoning their children.
The city hall initiated various projects as well as the construction of social
houses, fields assignment for the construction of houses and it is currently
under development a project to connect one of the streets to the drinking water
and the sewerage system.
Author: DIVERS
CNCD AWARDS THE DIVERSITY IN SPORTS
BUCHAREST � On Thursday, December 8, the National Council to Fight
Discrimination launched the first round table within PHARE Project �Toughening
the institutional capacity in the field of non-discrimination�, developed in
partnership with Ministry of Justice in Holland. On this occasion, CNCD awarded
the players of the football team Dinamo Bucharest the Prize �Promotion of
diversity in sports�. They painted their faces in black, after one of their
colleagues, African football player, was shouted racist slogans against.
Author: DIVERS
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