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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Autonomy too costly for Hungarian Romanians
The Romanian Minister of Culture Kelemen Hunor declared on Tuesday, the Hungarian national holiday, that Hungarians in Romania must fight for their rights and their autonomy. Hunor is president of the small coalition party the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UMDR). But the majority of Hungarians in the Romanian region of Székely Land don't want autonomy, writes the opinion portal contributors.ro: "The reason is simple and pragmatic: the economy. In regions which have territorial autonomy in Europe, the local authorities are responsible for education, health, traffic and social welfare. Sometimes they even have their own tax policy. In most cases autonomous regions fare better economically than the surrounding regions because that was precisely the reason for their seeking autonomy in the first place. In Romania areas like Harghita and Covasna are decidedly poor. Their GDP and average wages lie below the national average. In addition they receive in subsidies exactly what they must pay in fees, which means they are particularly well off among Romania's regions. Autonomy would plunge the entire population of Székely Land into poverty."
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More from the press review on the subject » Minorities, » Separatism, » Economy, » Hungary, » Romania
The strange fame of Nicolae Ceauşescu
The news of the exhumation of ex-dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife spread around the world last week. The news portal Hotnews asks British historian Peter Siani-Davies, a specialist on Southeastern Europe, why the event arouses such interest: "Whether we like it or not Ceauşescu is the sole Romanian - with the possible exception of Dracula - known by almost everyone in the world. ... Just as Stalin embodies the horrors of Soviet communism, Ceauşescu represents the same for Eastern Europe - and that's why people find him so interesting. In such a complex and unstable situation as the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, the world wants to be clear on who are the heroes and who are the villains. On the one side stood Václav Havel and Lech Wałęsa ... and on the other was Nicolae Ceauşescu, the unmistakable figure in a sea of grey apparatchiks. He was the archetype of the unscrupulous tyrant who lived in luxury while his people starved. ... To this day Ceauşescu remains a fascinating and famous figure. And that's just as he would have wanted it, only without the negative aspects."
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More from the press review on the subject » History, » Weltanschauung, » Remembrance culture, » United Kingdom, » Global, » Romania
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