The organizers of the European Citizens' Initiative for the protection of national regions will participate in a hearing before the Committee on Regional Development (REGI) of the European Parliament in Brussels on June 25 this year. The citizens’ initiative launched by the Szekler National Council is not an abstract legal proposal, but one that can be applied to concrete events and objectives. The concept of improving cohesion policy is fully applicable to the recent events that occurred in Parajd at the end of May and in June of this year.
Letter to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the States of the Schengen Area
In the European Union, Romania's accession to the Schengen Area is on the agenda. As Romanian citizens, we pay close attention to the related events, and specifically to the opinions of Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden abstaining or rejecting the accession. Although the Hungarian national community in Romania is interested in the country's accession to the Schengen Area, at the same time we accept the reservations of these states with great understanding. We believe that all member states of the Schengen Area should be aware of the two-faced behavior that characterizes Romania's attitude towards international and community law in the last thirty years.
On March 10 of each year, we present the Gábor Áron Award for the previous year. This year's awards care tied to last year’s greatest international success, which rightly bore the motto of the Szekler National Council: For Szeklerland we mobilize Europe! At the proposal of the President of the Szekler National Council, it has been decided that the following individuals will receive the Award this year:
Yesterday, on 20 December 2021, the verification of the signatures of the European Citizens' Initiative for the Equality of the Regions and the Sustainability of Regional Cultures was completed. The organizers have been informed by the Hungarian Elections Committee that the Decision, according to which 826,826 of the 901,758 signatures are valid, with the certification included within, has come into force. Two days prior, reports on the number of valid signatures were received from Portugal and Cyprus as well, and with this, the table of signatures from all 27 EU Member States, which is part of this notice, is complete.
In our address, „Latvia Has Fallen”, published on our community page on September 16 this year, we shared the bad news that the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Latvia validated only 5395 statements of support, leading to Latvia dropping out of the eleven states, where the number of statements of support for the citizens’ initiative for national regions exceeded the lower threshold. We also indicated that we had asked the competent Latvian authorities for further information, and were considering a way to pursue legal remedy. On September 21 2021, we received a detailed, precise and correct response from the Central Election Commission. Their response lists the different categories of invalidated statements of support, including 775 from supporters who reside in Latvia but do not have Latvian citizenship. Validating these statements, would have been sufficient for the threshold to be reached.
Latgale (Eastern Latvia)
On 22 June 2021, the Spanish government passed a decision to release the imprisoned Catalan politicians. This decision is called partial pardon, which means the remainder of their prison sentences is erased, they are however barred from public affairs.
Jens Stoltenberg warned NATO members and the whole world of a new danger: the rapprochement of Moscow and Beijing. According to the Secretary-General, the North Atlantic Organization applies a dual method of approach to Russia: intimidation and dialogue.
On 7 April 2020, we addressed a written request to the European Commission to extend the deadline on the collection of signatures for the citizens' initiative for the protection of national regions. In this request, we asked for a six month extension of the deadline, so that this six-month period begins when the restrictive measures taken due to the pandemic in most Member States are lifted.
The Citizens' Initiative for National Regions aims to support peoples, nations, countries, national communities that are not currently recognized by the European Union. The initiative is not about protecting minorities! Many people do not understand why the Flemish and Flanders, did not support the Minority SafePack citizens' initiative. It is because it was obvious and natural to them that they are not a minority, but a people, a nation, a country. The Scots, the Catalans, the Basques, and we, the Szeklers, are all on the same opinion. We are the majority in our homeland, and we have kept that majority for hundreds of years, even under foreign rule.
Victory of the Szekler National Council in the Court of Justice of the European Union
The Szekler National Council has achieved tremendous success in Luxembourg. The Court of Justice of the European Union, in second instance, declared the European Commission's decision of July 2013 rejecting the registration of a European Citizens' Initiative on national regions, to be null. The court therefore took the side of the initiators over the European Commission.
The celebretion of the Szèkely (Sekler) Homeland.
On the 18th of November 2018, on the occasion of the centenary of the Sekler National Council that was founded in 1918, the main square of Sepsiszentgyörgy was filled with people who wished to stand up for the autonomy of Sekler land in person. At the grand centenarian meeting of the Sekler National Council, the organisers ‘ intention has been realised as the Sekler peoples along with the Transylvanian Hungarian community that stands in solidarity with them had this united rally when we remembered the struggles of the last hundred years, the founders of the Sekler National Council, the Sekler Division and the Hungarian autnomous province that was terminated 50 years ago. We remembered the grievance of the community but also the possibilities of action to be taken. The speakers: Làszló Tōkès, Europen Parliament Representative, Chairman of the Transylvanian Hungarian National Council, Zsolt Szilàgyi, Chairman of the Transylvanian Hungarian People’s Society, Jànos Mezei, Chairman of the Hungarian Civil Society, Sabin Gherman, Transylvanist activist and Balàzs Izsàk, Chairman of the Sekler National Council- were recalling the morale of the last hundred years- all emphasised that Romania will only become a lawful state and can only start developing if it respects the country’s regional and ethnic variegation and if it plans it’s future building upon the particular values of the historical regions instead of it’s assimilationist politics of the past hundred years. This even was also the celebration of the Sekler Homeland when the community has repeatedly enunciated it’s commitment to the autonomy of Sekler land. The community confirmed it’s will to form the future of the Sekler community on it’s own homeland by peaceful and democratic means within the frame of the Romanian state with the grant of the institutional guarantee of autonomy by law. Sending a definite message to Bucharest and to the world that the Seklers insist on their claim for autonomy!
Press Relations of the Sekler National Council, 18th November 2018, Sepsiszentgyörgy
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