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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:07 PM
Subject: REPORT: The Romanian Draft Law on the status of National
Minorities
ECMI Report #54
Decker, D. Christopher and Aidan
McGarry. The Romanian Draft Law on the status of National Minorities: Issues of
Definition, NGO Status and Cultural Autonomy. ECMI Roundtable for National
Minority MPs and the Council of National Minorities.
Sinaia,
Romania, 17-19 March 2005.
May 2005, 42 pp., appendix..
http://www.ecmi.de/download/Report_54.pdf
ECMI
gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the �Enhancing Minority
Governance in
Romania�
programme by the Global Conflict Prevention Fund of the British Foreign and
Commonwealth Office.
The European Centre for Minority Issues and
the Department of Inter-Ethnic Relations (DRI) organized the second event of the
�Improving Inter-ethnic Relations through Enhanced Minority Governance� project
on 17�19 March 2005 in Sinaia,
Romania.
The head and both deputy heads of the DRI attended the roundtable along with
national minority members of the Romanian Parliament and representatives of the
national minority organizations represented on the Council of National
Minorities. There were two fundamental purposes for the meeting. One was to
provide the group with background information on the three major issues that
will feature in the draft law on the status of national minorities, namely:
defining a national minority; the status of national minority organizations
under Romanian law; and cultural autonomy. The second purpose was to facilitate
dialogue between the national minorities and the government concerning these
main issues to be addressed in the draft law, so as to allow the government to
hear the concerns and wishes of the national minority groups. It was noted that
this was the first time that national minorities have been able to have a forum
to discuss a draft law before it was presented to parliament. This report seeks
to provide an account of the presentations and discussions that took place
during this meeting, including some of the theories and practicalities of
differing forms of definition, laws concerning NGOs and political parties, and
models of cultural autonomy used in European states.
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