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Strategic litigation for bilingual street names
Tîrgu Mureș/Marosvásárhely, Oradea/Nagyvárad, Satu Mare/Szatmárnémeti, 2016-2018 ℘ In 2016 CEMO has initiated strategic litigation cases against the mayor’s office of Tîrgu Mureș-Marosvásárhely, Oradea/Nagyvárad, Satu Mare/Szatmárnémeti as several hundred thousands of Hungarians are being affected in these three localities. The street name plates in these settlements are presently practically monolingual, the names of the streets and squares […]
TovábbLinguistic rights in the local public administration at the Mayor’s Office in Marosvásárhely
Tîrgu Mureș-Marosvásárhely, 2016- December 31, 2017℘ In 2016 our organization initiated several legal procedures, official complaints and data requests against the mayor’s office in Marosvásárhely. The aim of these legal steps is to encourage the use of Hungarian language in the mayor’s office as set in the Law on Public Administration number 215 from 2001. […]
TovábbThe absence of bilingualism in “multicultural” schools of Marosvásárhely/Tirgu Mures. Parents in Marosvásárhely for bilingualism
Marosvásárhely / Tîrgu Mureș, January 15, 2010.℘ In 2010 January a group of Marosvásárhely/Tirgu Mures parents whose children study in “Dacia” School, “Europe” High School, “Liviu Rebreanu” High School and in the No. 2 Primary School surveyed the languages projected by these schools, and found an utter lack of Hungarian language inside or outside their […]
TovábbCEMO has finalized and submitted its “Shadow Report to the Initial Periodical Report on the Implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Romania”
Târgu Mureș / Marosvásárhely, March 15, 2011.℘ Romania signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in July 1995. Fourteen years later, on 29 January 2009, the country published the Law on the Ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECMRL) (Law nr. 282 from 24 October 2007) that entered into force on […]
TovábbOpen 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. […]
TovábbThe 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 […]
TovábbThe 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 […]
TovábbFor 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 […]
TovábbPostal 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 […]
TovábbChristmas 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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