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Divers Bulletin no. 9 (137) / March 14, 2005
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION ALLOTS SOME 400 PLACES FOR ETHNIC ROMA STUDENTS
BUCHAREST For the academic year 2005/2006, Ministry of Education and Research allotted 398 distinct places for the ethnic Roma candidates to the university education.
At the registration, ethnic Roma candidates will show, besides the documents requested by the faculties they want to attend to, a written recommendation from a duly established organization of the ethnic Roma (civic, communitarian, political), which certifies the appurtenance of the ethnic Roma candidate to the Roma ethnics and not the fact he/she is a part of that organization.
At the registration there are not accepted declarations of ethnic Roma made on the own liability through the notarys bureau or issued in that respect by other institutions or organizations. In view of registering to a faculty, the candidates will submit, during the registration period settled by the respective high education department, a written request to the chief secretary of the university (and not of the Rector or of the faculty), so that this informs the faculty taken into account by the candidates as regards the registration on a distinct place allotted to ethnic Roma.
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EU REPRESENTANT DISAPPOINTED WITH THE STATUS OF ETHNIC ROMA IN SOUTHERN ROMANIA
DROBETA-TURNU SEVERIN The chief of the Delegation of the European Commission, Jonathan Scheele, stated on March 8, at the end of a visit in Mehedinti county (southern Romania), the project financed through Phare program on the social accession by means of training of some ethnic Roma in Cerneti village, was correctly developed, but the target has not been reached yet. In 2003, Mehedinti County Council requested a European credit of EUR18,314 to accomplish a consultation department of the ethnic Roma population in Cerneti village and to train them as carpenters.
''We noticed a negative impact. The 15 persons attending this course have not received a job on the labor market in Mehedinti after the graduation. The local authorities should have got involved in the employment promotion within this project'', stated Scheele.
''It is a human tragedy in that community made up of about 700 ethnic Roma, 15 of whom we actively involved in production, as there is no resource for a decent living standard'', also said the European official. ''The flaws of this project are a lesson for we all, reason for which we should better prepare the projects and we should eventually foresee the difficulties'', also said Scheele.
During March 7-8, the European official Jonathan Scheele visited five locations in Mehedinti county where there are developed projects financed by the European Union.
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NEW PROJECT TO BUILD SOCIAL DWELLINGS FOR ETHNIC ROMA...
ARAD On March 9, at Arad (western Romania), it was launched the project Social dwellings for ethnic Roma, financed through Phare funds within the program Support for the national strategy to improve ethnic Roma statusin the fields of small infrastructure and social dwellings.
The project will be accomplished within a partnership between the Department of Development and Communitarian Assistance within the Local Council of Arad County Seat, Department for Dialogue, Family and Social Solidarity Arad, County Agency for Labor Recruitment and Christian Association ''Neemia'' the group of initiative of ethnic Roma in Arad county seat.
The partnership aims at increasing the degree of social integration and the improvement of the ethnic Roma living standard, through the construction of ten social dwellings, houses with two rooms plus annexes for the families with social risk and through employing 20 of the members of this community who will effectively work at building these dwellings.
According to Etelca Nagy, chief executive office with Arad, the beneficiaries of this project will be ten young families of ethnic Roma, who will live in the ten houses and who should be employed to financially afford the maintenance costs. Other 250 persons who live there will also benefit from the infrastructure to be accomplished in the respective area.
The total budget of the project is of EUR234,101, of which the European Union has a contribution of EUR168,301 and Arad Local Council EUR65,800. Moreover, the Council will pay the afferent costs for establishing the infrastructure in the area, costs forecasted to about ROL15 bn. The project will be financed for 12 months, subsequently self-financing and continuing the targeted activities. This project contributes to the accomplishment of at least two of the components of the Progran to integrate the ethnic Romas families in the community, registered in the Governing Program during the period 2005 - 2008, namely the labor integration / participation through work at the development of the local community and the development of the national programs on improving the living standard, through collaborating with the civil society'', said Etelca Nagy.
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... AS WELL AS FOR LEGITIMACY OF PERSONS WITHOUT IDs
CLUJ-NAPOCA Over 90% of the ethnic Roma people in Cluj who do not have IDs, will finally enter legitimacy, informs a press release. The Prefects Institution in Cluj County, the County Council, the Police Inspectorate of the County (IPJ) Cluj, the Department for Ethnic Roma Communities and Organization Amare Phrala Fratii Nostri started an action to identify the ethnic Roma without IDs, to be released the documents as soon as possible.
The checkups performed in 2004 showed that over 350 ethnic Roma persons did not have IDs at the beginning of the action or the validity period of the document had expired. Most of them claimed this situation is caused by the lack of money to be released the documents.
Over 60% of these persons, namely 194 ethnic Roma citizens, were already investigated by IPJ Cluj and were released the IDs. For the time being, the number of ethnic Roma citizens without IDs rises to 156, 38 of whom are under-aged.
About 27,860 ethnic Roma citizens live in Cluj county, most of whom are in the peripheral districts.
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GOVERNMENT PROMISES SUPPORT TO RETROCEDE JEWISH PROPERTIES
BUCHAREST Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu promised on March 4, to support the Jewish community in Romania to acquire the properties confiscated by the communist regime as well as by the legionary one.
The problem to retrocede the properties confiscated by the communist regime is subject to various files prosecuted by ECHR.
Tariceanu says the restitution is made with difficulties and in some cases, it is even impossible, as some of the dwellings or houses are currently occupied by local institutions.
Premier Tariceanu said the Government undertakes to help the local administrations to identify suitable locations for the institutions currently occupying the confiscated properties and that were restituted according to the law. We aim the restitution is made in kind and where this is not possible, the duly owners receive suitable compensations. In that respect, I want to stress out we asked privatization agency AVAS, as it is the authorized institution, to establish a fund of 20% of the privatizations dealing with the compensations in money and not in kind, also said Premier Tariceanu.
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WORLD HUNGARIAN UNION LEADER PRAISES HUNGARIAN YOUTH PROTESTS
CLUJ-NAPOCA - The president of the World Union of Hungarians, Patrubany Miklos said that Hungarian Deputy Eorsi Matyas, who was prevented from holding a conference in Cluj by young Hungarians' protests, "got what he deserved in Transylvania."
Last week, several representatives of the Hungarian Youth in Transylvania blocked Eorsi's access to the conference hall, as a protest to the Hungarian deputy's refusal to support a national referendum on double citizenship for Hungarians living outside their country's borders.
"The young people showed him a 'no,' just as he said 'no' to the referendum held on December 5, 2004," said Patrubany. He accused Eorsi of breaking Hungary's Constitution, by declaring himself against the referendum.
Patrubany said his organization asked the Hungarian government to make a decision regarding the issue of double citizenship by the end of the year. "If they don't, we will start procedures and gather signatures to organize another referendum next year," he said.
The World Union of Hungarians organized the referendum on December 5 last year. The Hungarian Youth in Transylvania strongly supported the referendum and believes the Hungarian Liberal-Democratic Alliance, of which Eorsi is a member, is to blame for its failure.
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ITALIAN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO BE UNITED, LEADER SAYS
BUCHAREST - The Italian minority's Parliament representative, Mircea Grosaru, would like to change authorities' general perception of this minority, by creating a strong organization which would benefit from the financial and national heritage rights as specified by both Romanian and Italian laws. Grosaru said he is fighting for the unification of all Italian organizations in Romania, as only "united in a strong organization can we have access to all the money the government gives to the minority, 5 billion lei (about 138,000 euros) per year."
The amount may seem large, but of all the national minorities, the Italians actually get the lowest amount, said Grosaru. This is because in the 2003 census, only 3,288 Italians acknowledged their ethnic origins, he explained. In his opinion, there are over 100,000 Italians in Romania, but many did not declare their origins probably "because of poor management." He said that the minority was not properly represented and could not convince the state they need more money and Italian authorities that they need support.
The Romanian and Italian governments have recently signed an agreement for economic, cultural, scientific and educational collaboration, which will primarily be promoted by the Italian community.
Grosaru said he will also fight so that the community regains all its former properties in Romania. "Of the 18 minorities acknowledged in Romania, it seems that only the Italians did not regain the houses and properties it had some time ago (...). I am determined to go through with this, to get back the Italians' former properties, even if I have to go to court," concluded Grosaru.
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