Regional autonomy is Romania's future

On the occasion of the Hungarian national holiday on Monday, local politicians in the Romanian region of Széklerland, home to a large Hungarian-speaking minority, have again called for the region's autonomy. Iulian Leca welcomes the idea in the blog Voxpublica: "It can only be a win-win situation to accept the Hungarians' territorial demands and grant them all the rights they want. Modernity comes about by accepting bold, audacious, even zany ideas. Just think what administrative advantages could be gained with such a move. A federal system of autonomous regions would emerge in Romania. ... Even if centralism is the rule in many Western states, in each case it adapts as modern administrations develop. ... Instigating a form of administration that the Hungarian minority could also adopt would be the biggest step Romania could take in the direction of modernity. And it would mean adapting to a changing world."

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