Category Archives for Bilingualism in public administration 2007-2012

The usage of the ethnic minorities, mother tongue within the administration of the state institutions Bilingualism in the institutions of the local public administration

Mures County, May 2011.℘ The representatives of Civic Engagement Movement have implemented a series of trainings with the aim to raise awareness, inform and build capacity in relation to the use of the ethnic minorities’ mother tongue within the state institutions as regulated in the Romanian legislation. The trainings have focused mainly on the idea […]

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Awareness Raising Training related to the Legislation regulating the use of minority languages within the state institutions. Training for the representatives of the Child Protection Directorate operating in the County of Covasna in the town of Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy

Sfântu Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy, 18-21 April 2011.℘ The representatives of our NGO together with the members of the Child Protection Directorate have implemented a series of trainings with the aim to raise awareness, inform and build capacity in relation to the use of the mother tongue of the national minorities within the state institutions as regulated in […]

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Open letter related to the initiation “Let’s start to achieve the official status for the Hungarian language”

Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, 17 March 2010.℘ The media-events of the last days as well as the methods and contents of the information disseminated by different media have compelled our organization, the Civic Engagement Movement (CEMO) to formulate two open letters. Our first open letter is addressed to the Realitatea TV and Antena 3 TV.  […]

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The use of mother tongue in official institutions

Miercurea Ciuc / Csíkszereda, 1 April 2010.℘ “The Use of the Mother Tongue in the Official Institutions” was the title of the conference held in Csíkszereda/ Miercurea Ciuc organized by the Local and County Council, having as goal the promotion of the usage of regional languages, the usage of spoken and written Hungarian in different […]

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The Mayor’s Offices are monolingual

Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, February 13, 2009.℘ In February of 2009 opened the Mayor’s Office opened new offices in the Tudor Vladimirescu neighbourhood of which signage are posted exclusively in Rumanian language.  As a reaction to this CEMO wrote an open letter to Mayor Dorin Florea, and as a result we have achieved that Hungarian-language signs […]

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For Hungarian and German language inscriptions in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca/Klausenburg

Kolozsvár / Cluj / Klausenburg, May 2009.℘ The Civic Engagement Movement (CEMO) and the Internet portal Transindex gathered signatures for supporting its disagreement with certain statements made by the mayor of Kolozsvár Mr. Sorin Apostu.  On May 7, 2009, the mayor of Kolozsvár said that multilingual signs are to be placed on each historic monument […]

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Postal Addressing in Hungarian

Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, April 10, 2009.℘ Within the framework of the “Bilingualism Program” in the spring of 2009, the Civic Engagement Movement (CEMO) organized a new advocacy action, having the aim of testing Romania’s and more specifically Transylvania’s postal services.  The attitude of the Romanian Postal Services towards delivering letters addressed in Hungarian was […]

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Christmas and New Year Illumination in Marosvásárhely

Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, December 15, 2008.℘ In 2008 the leadership of Marosvásárhely omitted to display a Hungarian “Happy New Year” banner in front of the Mayor’s Office, an important place of the town. Member of CEMO think that in a city where Hungarian and Romanian people form almost equal portion of the total inhabitants, […]

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Questioning Open Letters

Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, May 2008.℘ In May 2008 as part of the Bilingiual Program, CEMO wrote open letters to Hungarian city council members, to the prefect of Maros County, Ciprian Dobre, to Hungarian officials, civil servants and counselors.

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“Discover the Maros valley!” Only in Romanian … ?

Marosvásárhely / Tîrgu Mureș, August 2008.℘ As part of the Bilingualism Program CEMO monitorized the linguistic landscape of a festival organized in 2008 for promoting the Maros Valley, titled “Discover the Maros valley”. The work was not overly complex, since the Hungarian inscriptions were completely missing from the linguistic image of the festival. The open […]

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