Romania

HHRF participated in a conference on “Preserving Identity in the Face of Oppression: Religious Freedom and National Identity in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia,” organized by Freedom and Identity in Central Europe (FICE) and the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) on February 2, at the Meridian … Read More

UPDATED: After a thorough analysis of the decision of the General Court of the European Union from 9 November 2022 in the case of the Minority SafePack Initiative vs the European Commission, the MSPI’s Citizens’ Committee and the FUEN Presidium took … Read More

On January 11, Bogdan Aurescu spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmitro Kuleba, by telephone, to discuss the Ukrainian minority law adopted in December. There is a sizeable Romanian speaking minority in Ukraine. On Wednesday, Aurescu and Kuleba agreed that a … Read More

On Wednesday, January 4, President Klaus Iohannis spoke with Volodymyr Zelensky, expressing deep concern over the national minority law in Ukraine, which has caused worry and dissatisfaction among the Romanian authorities, and representatives of the Romanian community in Ukraine.  The Romanian presidential office’s … Read More

Minority-related Public Art and Monuments Will Have Bilingual Inscriptions Henceforth, all commemorative plaques, public art, and installations or monuments connected to the Hungarian community in Romania must have an inscription in Hungarian as well as Romanian. Initiated by the Democratic … Read More

Following in the steps of Lianna Hedrick, Sarah Agronow and Sarah Carroll, Marcus Kinney is our 4th Reconnect Transylvania+ Scholarship recipient. Having arrived to Kolozsvár/Cluj, Romania at the beginning of September, Marcus will stay in the unofficial capital of Erdély … Read More

“Creating connections is one of the keys to success. Behind HHRF is a large network,  which people who turn to us have access to to create meaningful relationships. We are always here to help in any capacity that we can.”  … Read More

The following excerpt is from the Federal Union of European Nationalities report on the case of the Hungarian Roman Catholic School in Târgu Mureș. In May 2022, the Romanian Supreme Court upheld a decision to dissolve the Hungarian Roman Catholic … Read More

On Monday, May 23, Emese Latkóczy and Petra Kovács of the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation met with EP MEP Loránt Vincze of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania in Washington D.C., where they led meetings with Congressional and State … Read More