{"id":34809,"date":"2017-12-02T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T19:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=34809"},"modified":"2017-12-02T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T19:13:55","slug":"lack-bilingual-inscriptions-not-regarded-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/lack-bilingual-inscriptions-not-regarded-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"The lack of bilingual inscriptions: not regarded as discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Cassation and Justice, Romania\u2019s supreme court, in a final judgement annulled a decision of the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) from 2014. The decision in question was a milestone as far as minority rights protection is concerned, since it stated that the lack of bilingual street name signs in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely constitutes discrimination and suggested that the Mayor\u2019s Office placed the street name signs in two languages: Romanian and Hungarian. As a reaction to this, the Mayor\u2019s Office brought the CNCD and the NGO that put up the bilingual street signs to court, asking for the Council\u2019s decision to be annulled.<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court\u2019s decision comes after the Mure\u0219 Court of Appeal\u2019s first degree ruling in favour of the Mayor\u2019s Office. It is worth mentioning that the Romanian Law on the Local Public Administration clearly states that in the territorial-administrative units where the citizens belonging to the national minorities account for over 20% of the inhabitants, the public local authorities must ensure the use of that language in relations with them. Interpretations of these provisions lead to applying the law exclusively in the case of the name signs of the settlements and the inscriptions of the respective authorities, but not the street name signs.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Romania has ratified the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in 2008, in which it undertook to use the place-names in regional or minority languages in conjunction with the name in the official language. In a 2012 report on the application of the Charter, several recommendations were included, interpreting the term \u201cplace-name\u201d as meaning not only the name of settlements, but also street names, for example. Nota bene, T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely is a city in Transylvania, Romania, having a 45% Hungarian population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anti-Hungarian hate-speech persists in Romanian football<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Throughout this year our organisation has been drawing attention to the increasing xenophobia that Hungarian football players and their supporters have to endure in the Romanian football league. However, anti-Hungarian hate-speech during football matches does not seem to be abating.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent football match between two U19 teams, FC Boto\u0219ani and FK Cs\u00edkszereda Miercurea Ciuc\/Cs\u00edkszereda, the players and the supporters of the latter were exposed to very vulgar and racist language coming from the fans of the hosts. The referee did not stop the game, nor were there any measures taken after the match had ended.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34810\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34810 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xenophobic and racist slurs by Romanian supporters during games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the incident, the president of FK Cs\u00edkszereda, Zolt\u00e1n SZONDI, addressed letters to the Romanian Football Federation and to the Central Committee of Referees, in which he complained that this is not the first instance in which the junior teams of his club have to endure xenophobic and racist slurs during games. He demanded for adequate action to be taken in such cases, and for the rules stipulated by the Romanian Football Federation to be respected. Only by taking firm action against racism and xenophobia can such incidents be avoided in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mikoimre.ro\/\">mikoimre.ro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court of Cassation and Justice, Romania\u2019s supreme court, in a final judgement annulled a decision of the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) from 2014. The decision in question was a milestone as far as minority rights protection is concerned, since it stated that the lack of bilingual street name signs in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely constitutes discrimination and suggested that the Mayor\u2019s Office placed the street name signs in two languages: Romanian and Hungarian. As a reaction to this, the Mayor\u2019s Office brought the CNCD and the NGO that put up the bilingual street signs to court, asking for the Council\u2019s decision to be annulled.<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court\u2019s decision comes after the Mure\u0219 Court of Appeal\u2019s first degree ruling in favour of the Mayor\u2019s Office. It is worth mentioning that the Romanian Law on the Local Public Administration clearly states that in the territorial-administrative units where the citizens belonging to the national minorities account for over 20% of the inhabitants, the public local authorities must ensure the use of that language in relations with them. Interpretations of these provisions lead to applying the law exclusively in the case of the name signs of the settlements and the inscriptions of the respective authorities, but not the street name signs.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Romania has ratified the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in 2008, in which it undertook to use the place-names in regional or minority languages in conjunction with the name in the official language. In a 2012 report on the application of the Charter, several recommendations were included, interpreting the term \u201cplace-name\u201d as meaning not only the name of settlements, but also street names, for example. Nota bene, T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely is a city in Transylvania, Romania, having a 45% Hungarian population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anti-Hungarian hate-speech persists in Romanian football<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Throughout this year our organisation has been drawing attention to the increasing xenophobia that Hungarian football players and their supporters have to endure in the Romanian football league. However, anti-Hungarian hate-speech during football matches does not seem to be abating.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent football match between two U19 teams, FC Boto\u0219ani and FK Cs\u00edkszereda Miercurea Ciuc\/Cs\u00edkszereda, the players and the supporters of the latter were exposed to very vulgar and racist language coming from the fans of the hosts. The referee did not stop the game, nor were there any measures taken after the match had ended.<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_34810\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"640\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34810 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96f51efb-db5e-4e34-aab8-5722cac643fb-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> Xenophobic and racist slurs by Romanian supporters during games[\/caption]\n<p>Following the incident, the president of FK Cs\u00edkszereda, Zolt\u00e1n SZONDI, addressed letters to the Romanian Football Federation and to the Central Committee of Referees, in which he complained that this is not the first instance in which the junior teams of his club have to endure xenophobic and racist slurs during games. He demanded for adequate action to be taken in such cases, and for the rules stipulated by the Romanian Football Federation to be respected. Only by taking firm action against racism and xenophobia can such incidents be avoided in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/mikoimre.ro\/\">mikoimre.ro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The lack of bilingual inscriptions: not regarded as discrimination &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/lack-bilingual-inscriptions-not-regarded-discrimination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The lack of bilingual inscriptions: not regarded as discrimination &#8211; Bocskai R\u00e1di\u00f3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The High Court of Cassation and Justice, Romania\u2019s supreme court, in a final judgement annulled a decision of the National Council for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) from 2014. The decision in question was a milestone as far as minority rights protection is concerned, since it stated that the lack of bilingual street name signs in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely constitutes discrimination and suggested that the Mayor\u2019s Office placed the street name signs in two languages: Romanian and Hungarian. As a reaction to this, the Mayor\u2019s Office brought the CNCD and the NGO that put up the bilingual street signs to court, asking for the Council\u2019s decision to be annulled.  The supreme court\u2019s decision comes after the Mure\u0219 Court of Appeal\u2019s first degree ruling in favour of the Mayor\u2019s Office. It is worth mentioning that the Romanian Law on the Local Public Administration clearly states that in the territorial-administrative units where the citizens belonging to the national minorities account for over 20% of the inhabitants, the public local authorities must ensure the use of that language in relations with them. Interpretations of these provisions lead to applying the law exclusively in the case of the name signs of the settlements and the inscriptions of the respective authorities, but not the street name signs.  Moreover, Romania has ratified the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in 2008, in which it undertook to use the place-names in regional or minority languages in conjunction with the name in the official language. In a 2012 report on the application of the Charter, several recommendations were included, interpreting the term \u201cplace-name\u201d as meaning not only the name of settlements, but also street names, for example. Nota bene, T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely is a city in Transylvania, Romania, having a 45% Hungarian population.  Anti-Hungarian hate-speech persists in Romanian football  Throughout this year our organisation has been drawing attention to the increasing xenophobia that Hungarian football players and their supporters have to endure in the Romanian football league. However, anti-Hungarian hate-speech during football matches does not seem to be abating.  During a recent football match between two U19 teams, FC Boto\u0219ani and FK Cs\u00edkszereda Miercurea Ciuc\/Cs\u00edkszereda, the players and the supporters of the latter were exposed to very vulgar and racist language coming from the fans of the hosts. The referee did not stop the game, nor were there any measures taken after the match had ended.    Following the incident, the president of FK Cs\u00edkszereda, Zolt\u00e1n SZONDI, addressed letters to the Romanian Football Federation and to the Central Committee of Referees, in which he complained that this is not the first instance in which the junior teams of his club have to endure xenophobic and racist slurs during games. He demanded for adequate action to be taken in such cases, and for the rules stipulated by the Romanian Football Federation to be respected. Only by taking firm action against racism and xenophobia can such incidents be avoided in the future.  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The decision in question was a milestone as far as minority rights protection is concerned, since it stated that the lack of bilingual street name signs in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely constitutes discrimination and suggested that the Mayor\u2019s Office placed the street name signs in two languages: Romanian and Hungarian. As a reaction to this, the Mayor\u2019s Office brought the CNCD and the NGO that put up the bilingual street signs to court, asking for the Council\u2019s decision to be annulled.  The supreme court\u2019s decision comes after the Mure\u0219 Court of Appeal\u2019s first degree ruling in favour of the Mayor\u2019s Office. It is worth mentioning that the Romanian Law on the Local Public Administration clearly states that in the territorial-administrative units where the citizens belonging to the national minorities account for over 20% of the inhabitants, the public local authorities must ensure the use of that language in relations with them. Interpretations of these provisions lead to applying the law exclusively in the case of the name signs of the settlements and the inscriptions of the respective authorities, but not the street name signs.  Moreover, Romania has ratified the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in 2008, in which it undertook to use the place-names in regional or minority languages in conjunction with the name in the official language. In a 2012 report on the application of the Charter, several recommendations were included, interpreting the term \u201cplace-name\u201d as meaning not only the name of settlements, but also street names, for example. Nota bene, T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219\/Marosv\u00e1s\u00e1rhely is a city in Transylvania, Romania, having a 45% Hungarian population.  Anti-Hungarian hate-speech persists in Romanian football  Throughout this year our organisation has been drawing attention to the increasing xenophobia that Hungarian football players and their supporters have to endure in the Romanian football league. However, anti-Hungarian hate-speech during football matches does not seem to be abating.  During a recent football match between two U19 teams, FC Boto\u0219ani and FK Cs\u00edkszereda Miercurea Ciuc\/Cs\u00edkszereda, the players and the supporters of the latter were exposed to very vulgar and racist language coming from the fans of the hosts. The referee did not stop the game, nor were there any measures taken after the match had ended.    Following the incident, the president of FK Cs\u00edkszereda, Zolt\u00e1n SZONDI, addressed letters to the Romanian Football Federation and to the Central Committee of Referees, in which he complained that this is not the first instance in which the junior teams of his club have to endure xenophobic and racist slurs during games. He demanded for adequate action to be taken in such cases, and for the rules stipulated by the Romanian Football Federation to be respected. Only by taking firm action against racism and xenophobia can such incidents be avoided in the future.  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