Center for Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe - Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE) MINORITIES IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE Hungarians of Romania Acknowledgements This report was prepared in cooperation with the Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center (EDRC). It was researched and written by Cathy O’Grady, Zoltán Kántor and Daniela Tarnovschi, Researchers of CEDIME-SE and EDRC. It was edited by Panayote Dimitras, Director of CEDIME-SE; Nafsika Papanikolatos, Coordinator of CEDIME- SE; Caroline Law, English Language Editors of CEDIME-SE, Rita Moore and Ioana Bianca Rusu, English Language Editors of EDRC. CEDIME-SE and EDRC would like to express their deep appreciation to the external reviewers of this report, Levente Salat, Executive President of EDRC, Anna-Mária Biró, Project Manager for Central and Eastern Europe of Minority Rights Group International, Klára Walter, Reviewer of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania, Ovidiu Pecican, Reader at Babeş- Bolyai University, Cluj, Faculty of European Studies, Iudith Páll, dr. Lecturer at Babeş- Bolyai University, Cluj, Faculty of History and Philosophy, and Lucian Nastasă, Researcher at the Romanian Academy. CEDIME-SE and EDRC would also like to thank all persons who generously provided information and/or documents, and/or gave interviews to their researchers. The responsibility for the report’s content, though, lies only with CEDIME-SE. We welcome all comments sent to:
[email protected]. 1 MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS State Romania Name (in English, in the dominant language and, if different, in the minority language): English – Hungarian, Magyar; Romanian – Maghiar, Ungur; Hungarian – Magyar. Is there any form of recognition of the minority? Hungarians are recognised by the Constitution of Romania (henceforth: the Constitution) (Art.