DEMOCRATIC
ELECTORAL
PROGRAMME
Parliamentary
and Presidential Elections
–
2000 –
PREAMBLE
Four years ago the electoral programme of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in
Romania (DAHR) included the following:
"Being aware that the year
of 1996 will determine the democratisation
possibilities of the country for a long period of time, and that the elections
will have a decisive significance for the Hungarian national community in
Following the elections the
Four years of governing are a
long period, yet from certain perspectives, they can also be seen as a short
one.
The time of reckoning has come: a
responsible organisation must now take the inventory
of the four years of governing. The DAHR is able to analyse
calmly and comprehensively, to draw the conclusions, and make use of the
accumulated experience. We must honestly tell what we could achieve for our
community, for the sake of the citizens of this country, and what we could not.
Obviously, the DAHR is assuming full responsibility for the results, but also
for the downfalls.
Now, in 2000, the electoral programme has to be different than four years ago. We must
talk openly about what were we able to do, what we could not reach, and most
importantly, about what we would like to obtain and what are we capable of
achieving in the future?
Four years of governing meant a
lot of lessons learnt. They taught us for instance, that in 2000 we must be more clear when we formulate our regional interests in
economy, education, or in the field of culture. We must ask ourselves the
question: What kind of a
We are aware that a lot more
could have been accomplished in a more stable and more loyal coalition. On the
other hand our participation meant that a number of very important measures
were taken for the sake of our national community: the education law, the local
administration law, the law on public servants, the property law on land, etc.
The Szeklerland
needs to be raised economically. The Partium needs to
be raised. We have to raise all the regions of
The idea and the institutional
systems of regionalisation have gained ground, but do
not yet fulfil the expectations that could mean a
turn in the process of advancing toward the European Union. Therefore it is not
by accident that the concept of progress in small areas and regions, of
regional and local development is stressed in our programme
through detailed, concrete plans. We have to wind up the underprivileged
situation of several decades in the regions where Hungarian communities live,
we have to create equality in chances in the economy, we must achieve that our
money serve the benefit of our community and not the wealth of others.
Local governments will grow to
have a much more significant role in the life of our community in the following
four years. In the process of integration, funds for local competitions,
support for the local communities will become significantly bigger. This is
what we have to be prepared for.
At the beginning of the new
millennium we have to leave no stone unturned to speed up the process of
European integration in
That is why the candidate of the
The two programmes
that mutually complete each other are a chance, too. A chance
for all of us. Today, when surveys show that the Hungarians in
With this
common programme, and with this determination wants
the DAHR to serve the Hungarian community in
We can only obtain results if we
honestly and clearly state: we are here, this is where we want to survive, this
is what we have done, and this is how we would like to proceed making our work
more effective and more successful.
And we shall indeed succeed
together!
CHAPTER I
THE GENERAL REFORM OF SOCIETY AND
EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION
We could increase the country’s chances of
accession...
The
Euro-Atlantic integration of the country has got a special importance for the
Hungarian community in
The
accelerated and entire reformation of Romanian society is the primary condition
of Euro-Atlantic integration. The central objective of the reform is the
establishment of a functional market economy, which operates in harmony with
the basic principles, norms, mechanisms, institutions and policies of the
European Union.
Ever
since its foundation, the DAHR has been committed on a matter of principle for
the general renewal of Romanian society, and has pursued this policy in the
past ten years both in opposition and within the governing coalition.
Unfortunately,
in the period between 1990-1996 the political forces
in power slowed down the implementation of a coherent reform policy. The
presently governing coalition has included the acceleration of reforms among
its priorities, but a lack of conception and a lot of operational malfunctions
prevented the objectives from being fulfilled. For these reasons, a clear,
transparent and executable programme is needed in
In
the governing cycle between 1996-2000 Romania has made
concrete steps on the area of the general reform of the society, as well as on
the area of launching the process of the Euro-Atlantic integration of the
country. By accepting to participate in the government, the DAHR has played and
important role both in the reform process and the process of Euro-Atlantic
integration.
Negotiations
about accession between
For
the sake of integration, and in order to raise the living standards of the
population, the DAHR considers the acceleration of the reform processes essential
in the following areas:
·
general economic policy
·
banking policy
·
public finances / state budget
·
labour
management
·
social policy and health care
·
education and culture
·
protection of the environment
·
institutional framework
·
public order
·
lack
of corruption.
General Economic Policy
Objectives
The
DAHR urges for the following:
·
the building by means of economic policy of a modern,
functioning market economy, based on private property;
·
the completion of privatisation,
solutions for property issues;
·
socially sensitive economic stabilisation;
·
the pursue of an investment-friendly policy, with
incentives meant to secure economic growth;
·
the formation of an economic environment that is favourable for enterprises; effective support for small and
medium-size enterprises;
·
the full application of the law initiated by the DAHR
and adopted by the Parliament, meant to support small and medium size
enterprises, as well as the elaboration of competition-based support programmes;
·
the reconstruction of the economy in harmony with the
trends of European integration;
·
solutions for ownership relations that support
property re-privatisation, respectively compensation
and/or indemnification;
·
securing equality of chances in the participation in
restructuring and control of economic life, based on criteria of competence;
·
building foreign economic relations;
·
guarantees for intellectual property, extending
industrial legal remedies in all areas of economic life;
·
creation
of the right working conditions for the commission that investigates Securitate files, execution of the law on checking the
files of public personalities.
Restructuring
of the Economy
Property
Restructuring
A. Privatisation:
In
order to speed up the restructuring of the economy, the privatisation
process of state-owned companies practically has to be finished by
We
urge for:
·
the fast privatisation of
the profitable companies, through sale;
·
fast liquidation procedures in the case of loss-making
companies, followed by privatisation;
·
property empowerment of self-governments and social
security funds through privatisation;
·
establishment of a system of criteria of sale to the
professional investors, which besides the minimal price also includes what the
investor must undertake: further investments, preservation or creation of jobs,
technological renewal, liquidation of environmental damages, further protection
of the environment, export-oriented production;
·
unification
of the institutional framework of privatisation, the
clear regulation of the spheres of authority, ending the disturbances that are
due to parallel structures.
· Re-privatisation
We
support and urge re-privatisation, complete
restitution of property in nature in case of shops, workshops, mills, hotels,
apartments, educational and social establishments, pharmacies, church estates,
scientific and cultural societies, associations, foundations, etc., while where
this is impossible, we think that full compensation is necessary;
Industrial
economic policy
In
the domain of industrial economic policy we urge for:
·
the creation of a law that would stimulate uniform
investments, in order to increase industrial production;
·
joining the network of European natural gas
transportation on a short term;
·
we support an industrial policy that emphasises the sale of human resources on a high level, and
the manufacturing of competitive products;
·
the support of research, development and innovative
activities, and making use of their results;
·
the naturalisation of
high-tech industries;
·
changes in the structure of the energy branch:
o
the elimination of monopoly type groups that disturb
the operation of the market, the creation of the conditions for a real
competition;
o
the privatisation of energy
producing and distributing units;
o
support of branch investments, meant to create a
well-functioning energy market;
·
support for non guarantee-based industrial credits,
oriented to competition;
·
accentuated consideration for environmental
viewpoints;
·
efficient steps taken to counter corruption, including
the passing of lacking laws and their consequent enforcement;
·
improved
public order, with special attention for organised
crime and infraction connected to drug smuggling.
Agricultural
policy
Aims
of the agricultural policy of the DAHR:
·
accomplishment of quality production, processing, high
level retail, capital accumulation;
·
support for the creation of a middle class, economic
strengthening, higher quality rural life;
·
shaping a profitable operational structure;
·
support for the extension of the market for the whole
range of products;
·
creation of stable and calculable price and revenue
conditions;
·
support for the acquiring of modern equipment;
·
support for the creation of a socially sound rural
society that is able to renew and sustain itself;
·
reorganisation
of the whole range of agricultural administration, based on functional models;
·
provision
of favourable credits.
Necessities
to achieve these:
·
the restructuring of the agricultural branch, the
establishment of new type co-operatives;
·
the privatisation of
companies with state capital;
·
support for the creation of an integrated system of
production;
·
the general restructuring of the support system for
agricultural producers and its extension in all major branches;
·
the development of more effective and larger plants,
the creation of larger production bases;
·
the termination of the monopoly situation on the
purchase area;
·
the formation of production councils – institutions
meant to safeguard the interests of producers;
·
the reform of the cadaster
recording, indispensable for the sale and purchase of land and for its
registering according to quality parameters, for the settlement of the market
price of land and for the target-oriented support of agricultural production;
·
the development of rural tourism as a business sector
connected to the sale of agricultural products and services, making use of
existing capacities;
·
the reorganisation of the
structure of the agricultural sector, creation of a new type of co-operatives;
·
the
establishment and operation of a statistical information system.
Reform
of Public Finances
The
budget has to become an effective tool in the realisation
of an economic policy meant to ensure a sustainable development. This can be
achieved by the restructuring of both basic elements of a programme-based
budget – income and expenditure –, and of the system of connected institutions.
The fundamental aims are to finance the budget deficit without inflation,
keeping it between manageable limits, and to reduce it significantly on a
medium and long term.
In
order to achieve these aims, we consider the following necessary:
·
the overall reform of the tax system;
·
the option given to the taxpayer to indicate the
purpose for which a certain proportion of the paid tax will be used;
·
reorganisation
of the tax structure;
·
further suspension of the income tax in agriculture;
·
a higher share of the income tax for self-governments;
·
the harmonisation of customs
and tariff regulations with the obligations in the international treaties
adopted and ratified by
·
the efforts to drive back the black economy should be
treated with a special emphasis;
·
the
basic regulations on the investigation and punishment of tax evasion should be
fundamentally changed.
Institutional
reform
The
DAHR will initiate a reform of the public administration, which will renew the
regulations of the relationship between central institutions for the sake of
efficiency and decentralisation.
Within
that framework we shall lay a special emphasis on:
·
the reduction of the sphere of authority of the
Prefectures;
·
the reduction of the number of members of Parliament;
·
the reduction and the simplification of the structure
of the Government;
·
the decreasing of the interference of central
institutions in the life of local institutions;
·
at
the same time we propose to reduce the two chambers of Parliament into only one
chamber.
The
Harmonisation of Legislation, and the Euro-Atlantic
Integration
The
Romanian legislation has to be accommodated with the regulations that are
generally valid across the European Union. For that purpose we urge the
compilation and the adoption of a draft bill package that ensures legal harmonisation.
This
package has to include the following draft laws:
·
the reform of the civil, penal and economic
regulations, which create and safely operate the institutional system of market
economy;
·
the reform of jurisdiction as a branch of power;
·
permanently incorporate the stipulations of
international agreements that regulate minority rights into the internal
legislation ;
·
the completion and modification of the Penal Code, the
Penal Proceedings Code, the Law on the Supreme Court, and of the laws that
regulate the operation of Military Courts and Prosecutors’ Offices;
·
the reorganisation of the Ministry of Interior (placing the
police, fire service, and the border-guards into the authority of the local
governments) in accordance with the expectations of the EU.
Banking
and financial policy
·
privatisation
of banks, following their previous consolidation and clean up of dubious
credits, in some of the cases with the buyer participation in consolidation;
·
regulation of the Stock Exchange and the market of the
securities outside the Stock Exchange, the termination of still existing
restrictions;
·
accurate
regulation and professional supervision of investment societies.
Labour management
Human
resources are the most valuable assets of the economy, therefore their
development, the increase of their capacity to produce
values are the central pillars of the DAHR’s policy
for economic development. We are committed adherents of the overall naturalisation of market economy in
We
strive for a healthy working morals to replace the
"socialist cult of work", so that for good work good wages are paid,
and slackers are punished by public disdain. Therefore we consider that the
thorough reformulation of the Labour Code is
necessary, and in it the following have to be included:
·
every citizen needs to be offered equal chances to lay
the foundations of his/her prosperity, in function of his/her abilities and
diligence;
·
the law should protect the rights of employees, these
should be specified exclusively by a contractual relationship, and their
observation guaranteed by a specific institution of jurisdiction;
·
the worker should have the right to develop his/her
ability to work, and the costs of the training should be partially paid for by
the employer;
·
employees should have the right to establish organisations to safeguard their interests;
·
the settlement and permanent payment of the employee’s
wage is the duty of the employer, while to achieve the undertaken performance
in terms of quality and quantity should be the duty of the employee;
·
persons that temporarily lose their jobs should be
entitled for a substitution income from funds secured for that purpose by the
employers and the employees;
·
the
risk of accidents or health injury at the working place should be insured in
common by employer and employee.
The
State, respectively the local governments, should support an education/training
system to develop and sustain the working abilities of the employees, with the
following aims:
·
ensure the necessary professional knowledge for the
job;
·
the adjustment to European standards of the training,
examination, accreditation and permission procedures;
·
plan and implement education and training programmes adjusted to the demands of the labour-force market;
·
covering
at least 30% of adult education needs, especially on the "lacking"
side of the education market’s supply.
The
balance of the labour force market is also the task
of the power, and it has to be achieved by means that do not disturb free
market conditions but help the employees to reach and stay on the market.
The
improvement of the employment rate is an important indicator of all time macro-economic
objectives. Governments in power must establish in regulations the level of
minimum wage valid nation-wide, which has to be adjusted to the expenses that
cover the procurement of the goods necessary for the preservation of the
ability to work and to the productivity of the national economy.
The
power must maintain the institutions that secure the services of employment
mediation and counselling on career choice and
change. These institutions have to be placed to an ever-greater extent into the
sphere of authority of the local governments.
We
support the inclusion of the right to freely choose one’s employment into the
existing regulations, but only if the rules that protect the rights of
employees are observed and clear. We condemn the trade of persons and the wild
recruitment of labour force abroad based on the
ignorance of employees, and consider those practices
criminal acts.
Social
Policy and Healthcare
Social
Policy
Respect
for difference and tolerance are the bonding material of social existence. The
basic principle of social solidarity has to be combined with the basic
principle of personal responsibility, in order to build on our religious and
historic traditions and give value to coexistence. Abusing the institutions of
social solidarity is a punishable deed.
The
most important aims of our social policy are to vouch for the security of
existence, to prevent the general process of pauperisation,
to diminish inequalities. To achieve that we must help those drifted to the
edge of society, as guaranteeing human dignity is one of the basic human
rights.
The
healthy family is the foundation of a healthy society. Establishing and
sustaining a family are social accomplishments worth to be valued by the whole
society.
For
that reason:
·
the DAHR, together with the churches undertakes the
elaboration of a programme to support families, that
will make the financial, moral and social embracement of families with three or
more children become a common issue of our whole Hungarian society;
·
we initiate the elaboration of a family friendly,
preferential system of consumption and taxation for families with three or more
children, as well as of laws that guarantee a preferential possibility to build
homes for these families;
·
within the framework of its family and population
policy, the DAHR initiates an intensive information programme
to decrease emigration;
·
we support the possibility of grandparents to make use
of maternity benefits in case parents do not;
·
we espouse the organisation
of different large family or pre-marriage programmes
and training courses;
·
we aim to help in the establishment, and support the
activity of different family organisations, family
assistance foundations, women’s associations;
·
the social integration of young generations is a
strategic aim we would like to achieve by the shaping of a vision for the
future that is also accepted by them;
·
moral and financial support to bring up children from
orphanages in families;
·
the establishment of independent, church or foundation
owned children’s homes also supported by the state;
·
moral and financial support for underprivileged
Hungarian children;
·
the DAHR urges the reform of the social security
system, and the introduction of rural services of social assistance in isolated
localities that lack social institutions;
·
the
disadvantaged that are able to work must be given the opportunity, and should
have the duty to accept community service.
Only
one part of the institutional framework of the social security system should be
public. Self-organising willingness to help must also
be given opportunities, just as the possibility has to exist for private
institutions to handle some of the public funds destined for social security.
Social
security has to be financed from the insurance taxes paid by those that are not
in need, and the social security funds have to be entrusted to institutions
which guarantee the practical and effective use of the paid amounts.
The
traditional system of retirement pensions has to be urgently supplemented by establishing
such capitalised funds that guarantee the present
value of the paid amounts, and these have to be protected by law from the
certain degrees of capital market fluctuation. The creation of such funds can
only be envisaged with the precondition of mutual trust, therefore we think: it
is worth to establish a fund that has as members Hungarians that trust each
other.
Social
Net
Simultaneously
with the expected economic recovery, at least two years from now a much more
increased emphasis has to be laid on solving social problems.
The
primary tool for the solution of social problems is the support for the
creation of new jobs, with an appropriate taxation policy, as well as
appropriate training and retraining.
The
paying out of social allowances (not of the unemployment allowance) has to be
linked by law to the execution of work for the benefit of community.
In
order to equalise chances after high school
graduation, in the year of graduation possibility should be given by means of legal
regulations for everyone to have one free admission examination for one branch
of study.
The
DAHR will initiate the adoption of a law to regulate private retirement pension
funds, the establishment and operation of a private retirement and insurance system
for the Transylvanian Hungarians.
Healthcare
All
citizens have the right to protect their health. The primary purpose of health
protection is to prevent the loss of one’s health, and only secondly the
artificial health recovery.
The
starting point of the health protection policy of the DAHR is that the risk of
illness has to be financed on grounds of insurance, viz. by the payments
separated from continuous consumption. The network of provisions needs to
undergo serious structural changes, which can be achieved by the regrouping of
necessary tools, their effective exploitation and ensuring maximum
availability.
Our
options are the following:
·
we urge the completion of the service network with
private institutions that can relieve the lasting lack of capital in the public
health;
·
curative institutions established by churches must be
offered scope in the service provision circle, and in case they operate more
efficiently than public institution, they should also be financed from public
funds;
·
a special programme has to
be financed to create civilised circumstances of life
and acquire the necessary equipment for the general practitioners who settle
down among the insured;
·
the amounts spent on the health protection of citizens
are to be treated as long time investments, and as such have to be included in
the category of strategic financing;
·
urging the adoption of a comprehensive framework law
on social allowances;
·
encouraging the launch of alternative social programmes and the adoption of the pertaining law;
·
urging
the restitution of denominational hospitals.
The
Ministry of Health and the Health Insurance House have to be obliged to create
together and continuously maintain a database about the health situation of
citizens, and the quantitative and qualitative aspects of medical care.
The
health insurance system also needs to be thoroughly revised. Our aim is to
co-ordinate better the activity of county insurance houses and to dissolve the
tensions between county insurance houses and service providers.
Environmental
Protection
The
demand for a clean environment has raised to become a
fundamental human right, while economic development can be also fulfilled in
parallel with the solutions for environmental problems. The realisation
of an effective environmental protection is also stimulated by the fact that
according to the experience so far, meeting the requirements connected to the
protection of the environment was among the most difficult ones in the set of
criteria for EU accession.
Recognising the above, the DAHR
considers necessary that an overall strategy be elaborated for the protection
of the environment, which could become the foundation of a National Programme for the Protection of the Environment, if placed
into an appropriate legal framework. The thorough assessment of the threats and
the damages of the environment and the elimination of the damages are the
fundamental aim of our own environmental protection programme.
For
that reason our
·
considers that the complete harmonisation
of the norms, directives, measuring and assessing methods used in the domestic
and international practice of environmental protection is a primary task;
·
declares that it only supports the measures of
environmental protection that are in harmony with the corresponding
international norms and agreements;
·
urges
the states in the
In
order to make activities related to environmental protection clearer, we
support the establishment of a National Authority for the Protection of the
Environment, subordinated to the Parliament.
This
authority should have the following tasks:
·
make proposals for the creation and the amendment of
regulations referring to the protection of the environment, and express an
opinion about such draft regulations;
·
through its territorial (county) agencies it should
effectively control the rules of the National Programme
for the Protection of the Environment, and efficiently watch over the
compliance of the regulations connected to the protection of the environment;
·
give
an account about the state of the environment for the Parliament on a
periodical basis or whenever requested to do so in connection with
extraordinary events.
The
National Programme for the Protection of the
Environment should include both the basic principles of the protection strategy
of unique environmental elements, and the treatment of local and regional
effects that result from the interaction of environmental elements.
The
ecological approach, a criterion that is generally and uniformly accepted today
in the practice of environmental protection, has to prevail in both methods of
treating environmental elements. In accordance with that, the damage of any
environmental element – subsoil, soil, water, air, flora and fauna – will
result in the alteration of all the other connected elements, evidently
influencing the living conditions of human society. One can easily deduce from
the outlined that the tasks of the programme must be
determined in such a way as not to lose sight of the fact that the environment
is a uniform whole, which also includes human society.
For
the sake of the protection of independently treated environmental elements we
support the inclusion of the appropriate professional institutions into the elaboration
process of the branch strategies, followed by the co-ordination of these
strategies by the National Authority for Environmental Protection.
In
the different branch strategies we consider justified and urge for the
embodiment of the following basic principles:
a. The
Subsoil:
·
the rational use of the mineral and generally the
natural resources;
·
the recultivation of the environmental damages in mining areas
(mining pits).
·
The Soil:
·
the shaping of a soil protection strategy to temper
the processes of soil deterioration that would include problems related to soil
water management, nutrient management and modern soil-friendly agricultural
techniques.
·
The Air:
·
continuously decreasing the level of air pollution,
that can be achieved by the strict observation of pertinent international
agreements;
·
the
adoption and starting of a national climate programme
to study the regional aspects of climate change.
·
The Surface Waters
·
the elaboration and implementation of a unified system
of water management in the
·
solution for the drainage and cleaning of communal and
industrial sewage water in all localities with more than 2000 inhabitants, in
accordance with EU directives;
·
more
attention concentrated on the protection of living waters and the water bases
that supply drinking water for the population.
·
The Underground Waters
·
measures taken to preserve the quantitative and
qualitative characteristics of subsoil water supplies that form the most
important bases of drinking water;
·
development
and operation of systems to monitor and protect surface and underground waters.
·
The Flora and the Fauna
·
elaboration of programmes
that aim at the preservation of biological diversity, and at the preservation
of the natural or nature-close living and reproduction areas of the flora and
fauna;
·
in
harmony with the previous idea, in order to create the conditions for the free
wandering of the living world, we propose that the catchment
areas of rivers be developed in a way that permits the formation of large,
interconnected networks of ecological flowing.
In
case of protection problems that result from the interaction of environmental
elements, besides the mostly territorial Agencies of Environmental Protection,
the recognition and treatment of these should fall in the sphere of authority
of self-organised groups of environmental protection.
In
these cases, we consider the following basic principles essential:
a. In
case of settlements:
·
the elaboration of overall execution plans with the
aim of improving the situation of settlement infrastructures deteriorated as a
consequence of the failing performance of the national economy;
·
the tempering in localities of air, water, soil and
subsoil pollution below the allowed values of limit, by the environmental
friendly technologies introduced in the industrial, transportation, heating,
etc. activities;
·
the
annihilation or recycling of waste materials produced in localities, by
applying modern waste management technologies.
·
In case of the landscape:
·
the
elaboration and start of a landscape cadaster programme meant to protect the unique landscape values of
the Hungarian-inhabited areas.
·
The protection of nature:
This
area is not to be confused with the protection of the environment,
therefore it must be addressed separately. The most important tasks can be summarised as follows:
·
our
interest safeguarding organisation supports all the
initiatives that define protection purposes in connection with geological or
surface formations, caves, soil, water, living water, flora and fauna,
landscape, unique landscape values, etc.
·
in
connection with the preservation of the diversity of the living world we
consider important the creation and operation of a network of genetic banks
under the supervision of natural protection.
The
successful solution for the far-reaching and multilevel tasks of the National Programme for the Protection of the Environment needs to fulfil some very important requirements:
·
the creation of an active system of institutions, in
which fellow institutions have independent modules of programmes,
yet also serve common purposes of environmental protection;
·
the establishment of expert counselling
groups that include members with broad professional, management, legal,
financial, etc. skills;
·
the building of appropriate monitoring and
informational infrastructures that are gradually able to provide updated
information for the decision preparing and decision making bodies;
·
the observation of environmental protection
regulations, the elaboration of stimulating and facilitating programmes, the execution of severe penalties;
·
support for all the civic organisations
that responsibly undertake the above outlined tasks;
·
the
teaching of ecology and of subjects that form a healthy view about the
environment in schools, high schools and universities, the training of the
population about issues related to the environment and the protection of the
environment.
Our
CHAPTER II
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SELF-GOVERNMENTS
"In case you want to
proceed – act!
In case you want to act – look for companions!"
One
of the guarantees for the economic progress of the country is the economic
blossom of its regions. A wealthy country can only imagined having wealthy
regions. The DAHR wants to represent the regional interests of
For
the sake of the preservation of our Hungarian community, in accordance with the
European practice we must continuously reappraise the role of regions in the
development and modernisation of the country. We wish
to create the conditions for the self-supporting development of regions in
harmony with the principle and practice of subsidiarity.
The
primary aim of regional development is the rise of living standards, based on
an effective economy that is grounded on environment protection, that places
our human and natural conditions in the front, and which preserves our
cultural, historical and natural heritage. Regional development strategies have
to take local features, demands, conditions and human resources into account.
The laws adopted in the past four years made possible the formation of
development regions, the support for underprivileged areas, the widening of
cross-border connections, the appearance of free trade zones and industrial
parks.
We
support the strengthening of the North-Western, Western and Central Development
Regions in the parliamentary cycle ahead of us. When elaborating development
strategies, one has to start from the priorities of small regions, for this is
the only way to secure the rise of the areas that are very important for us.
(The Szeklerland for instance, one of the areas that
need special attention, is part of the Central Development Region formed by
five counties.) We want to mobilise and harmonise all the existing political, organisational
and professional resources, in order to secure the enlargement of the legal
framework necessary for the development of the regions, and to facilitate
interregional co-operation on a European level. Our aim is to attract as many
financial resources from the budget, the European Union and other sources, as
possible.
The
majority of the Transylvanian Hungarians are employed in rural areas, and more
than 60% of DAHR voters make their living in rural areas, from agriculture. For
the sake of the development of agriculture, region and area, as well as for the
preparations for EU accession, we consider that the role of the state has to
decrease in the economy, monopolies must be ended, conditions for competition
be secured, and last but not the least, the private sector has to be
strengthened with the help of domestic and foreign capital
As
the result of the local elections, the DAHR has become the most significant
political force in
(The
priorities of regional development in county breakdown are included in the
appendix of the electoral programme.)
The
fundamental principles of our regional development strategy are:
·
to decrease the differences in the level of
development among the different regions;
·
to prevent the formation of new disproportions;
·
to co-ordinate the branch policies of the ministries
with the development policy of the regions;
·
to promote the European connections of the regions;
·
to establish the institutional framework and financial
resources that are necessary for the accomplishment of the strategy;
·
to create equal opportunities in the area of
education, employment and entrepreneurship;
·
to
take into consideration the specific Transylvanian heritage, the needs and
traditions of the national communities that live here.
In
its regional development strategy, the DAHR lays the greatest emphasis on the
economy, the agriculture and the development of localities and rural areas.
The
economic upswing and stability that will detension
the society can be achieved through a more effective economy. Within that the
agrarian branch has to be structurally rebuilt. The performances of the last
years have proved that the standard of production is below the real
possibilities, although the capabilities of the country would make the
production of good quality, favourably priced,
sellable products possible.
The
DAHR is aware that the agricultural activity is not enough to establish the
development of villages. Rural development must also mean the dynamic progress
of the food industry, as both branches secure the sources of living.
Therefore,
the support for the agriculture and the other sources for regional and local
development have to be treated with co-ordination. Greater emphasis has to be
laid on rural development, not only because the number of people living in
rural areas is bigger, but also due to the fact that their living and working
conditions are often alarmingly bad and their chances for employment and
education are often very limited.
The
objectives of our regional development strategy are the following:
·
the creation of the conditions for a sustainable
development, based on private property and market economy, and the attraction
of the necessary working capital for that purpose;
·
the building of a North-South and a West-East freeway;
·
the increase of the competitiveness of human resources
and the encouragement of entrepreneurial spirit, support for small and
medium-sized enterprises, establishment of industrial parks, decrease of the
administrative obstacles that concern entrepreneurs;
·
the creation of the local infrastructure necessary for
information technology, the development and financial support of enterprises
built on the Internet and information science;
·
outstanding support for tourism, from training to
financing, creation of professional alliances, co-ordinated
offers and event calendars;
·
the development of the infrastructure (freeways,
highways, airports, water supply, sewerage, natural gas, electricity network,
telecommunications and information transmission), financial support for that
from the budget and alternative sources, taking the specific character of the
regions into account;
·
the connection of Hungarian inhabited areas to the
network of freeways;
·
the increase of the role of local self-governments,
the strengthening of their institutional, financial and decision making
functions;
·
training of project application counsellors,
increase of the capacity of regions to absorb programmes;
·
empowerment of the regions with public administration
functions;
·
improvement of the quality of life, securing European
level communal services;
·
the preservation and the development of our cultural,
historical and natural heritage;
·
shaping regional marketing;
·
SWOT analysis of small regions, elaboration of
projects and their incorporation in the regional strategy;
·
decrease of environmental damages, rehabilitation of
highly polluted zones, protection of the drinking water supplies, soil and air;
·
elaboration of regional development plans, raising the
necessary funds for their implementation, and the efficient and transparent
distribution of these funds;
·
the opening of new border crossing points and the modernisation of the existing ones;
·
the foundation of new customs tax free zones;
·
the infrastructure development of villages, building
of roads that permit their participation in the economic life;
·
creation of long lasting employment opportunities in
underprivileged regions;
·
restoration and preservation of monuments;
·
building of regional environmental protection and
flood protection systems;
·
the connection of villages to the digital telephone
networks;
·
all local councils and schools should have computers
and access to Internet by 2004;
·
improvement of the health care service;
·
the full and fast application of the Law on Land;
·
cessation of the cutting down of forests, invalidation
of the multiple year lumbering permits;
·
support from the state budget for the implementation
of area arrangement plans;
·
establishment of agricultural credit companies, rural
and professional banks by means of law amendments;
·
establishment of family estates, increasing their
chances to cope in market competition;
·
initiation of investment supports that are also
available for private farmers with a small capital;
·
creation of jobs by helping starting and already
operational enterprises;
·
creating the conditions for rural tourism;
·
stimulation of co-operations that organise
the local selling and processing of products;
·
development of the branches of agriculture, tourism
and service provision;
·
creation
of a selling system of co-operatives, respectively of institutions of product
councils and village farming councils.
The
DAHR believes that with the help of its regional development strategy it could
contribute to the preservation, growth and better living conditions of our
community. The fulfilment of our objectives offer/ may offer a vision about the
future for our children, and a possibility for a career in our homeland, chance
for a life that is worth living in the homeland.
CHAPTER III
NATIONAL SELF-IDENTITY – MINORITY RIGHTS
"Liveable vision
instead of an abstract vision about the future"
Our
national self-identity can be preserved by the full and unconditioned respect
for human and minority community rights, through an independent network of
institutions, and by an organic, complex and unhindered system of connections
with the Hungarian nation.
For
that purpose clear, unambiguous, observable and enforceable laws and
regulations are needed, and determined, executable measures in public
administration. That is the only way to show a vision of the future that is not
abstract and made of theoretical constructions, but is liveable.
The
following are the components of such a liveable
vision about the future:
·
creating the conditions to stay in the homeland;
·
improving the quality of individual and community
life;
·
securing
the preservation of national self-identity.
Our
aim is to create living conditions that help people to stay in their homeland.
We urge by political means the application of laws that guarantee the
preservation of national, individual and community identity.
Conditions
to improve the living conditions:
·
respect for human dignity and human rights;
·
guaranteed collective, community rights of national
minorities and national communities, in accordance with the European norms and
the demands of the given communities;
·
the protection of difference and of national
self-identity in laws and regulations and their respect in the application of
laws;
·
usage of the mother tongue in public administration,
the system of justice, generally in public life, education in the mother tongue
on all levels, support for culture and education in the mother tongue;
·
legal insurance for the organisational
and operational autonomy of historic Hungarian churches and for their equality
with the other churches, as well as the overall and complete restoration and
respect of the church property rights;
·
formation of a minority system of institutions meant
to secure independent and autonomous decision making and action taking, to
secure minority existence, after all;
·
the creation of legal conditions for living and social
adaptation;
·
creation of jobs, and possibilities of retraining or
further training;
·
salaries
according to performance and equitable retirement pensions.
The
accomplishment is done on three levels:
·
in the legislation – by adopting unambiguous laws;
·
in the public administration – with applicable and
executable norms of implementation and appropriate measures;
·
in
the application of laws – by the accurate, professional and honest execution of
laws and regulations.
In
order to reach our aims, co-ordinated actions are
needed on all these three levels, actions that complete each other and rely on
each other. The realisation can be achieved through a
process, and not by leaps and bounds.
Education
The
assuming by the DAHR of a role and responsibility both in the legislative and
the executive branch opened new perspectives in the development of our
educational network.
The
legislative conditions have changed: the right to be trained in the mother
tongue is ensured by law on all levels, all educational forms and types,
including vocational education. Structures responsible for Hungarian education
have been built on all levels of the executive branch (leaders of institutions,
school inspectors, under-secretariats of state in charge with minority
education, general directorate in the Ministry of Education), as indispensable
deposits for the local enforcement of favourable
laws, government and ministerial decrees and measures.
We
succeeded to establish new educational institutions, ensure a home for some of
our secondary and high schools that had operated in co-tenancy with other
institutions, enlarge our network of schools. In several counties we managed to
restart vocational and industrial classes, and to enrich the existing network
with Hungarian postgraduate classes.
In
a similar way to the public education, the supply of university level training
in the mother tongue has also increased. We succeeded to start the first
Hungarian classes at the Faculties of Law and Economics of the
As
part of the educational reform process, the transformation of school structure
and management has started, teaching is going on according to new framework
plans of study and plans of study. The altered regulation of contents made the
gradual introduction of alternative manuals possible.
The
decentralisation of the educational system has
started. This resulted in the reformulation of the role and responsibility of
the state in education, and in a wider institutional autonomy (in areas like
pedagogy, training, operation, and management).
In
the process of the creation of a middle class, the roles and responsibilities
of civic organisations, local communities,
self-governments have increased in the past period in terms of sustaining and
operating schools and in securing the human resources for local and regional
development.
The
development and modernisation of the educational
system is an essential condition for the preservation of Hungarian national
identity in
The
educational policy of the DAHR follows a double aim:
On
the one hand, it wants to continue to represent the intention of becoming
autonomous in the Romanian political field of power, according to the model of
self-governments: the completion of an integral educational/ training system in
the mother tongue on all training areas, forms, and levels, free to take own
decisions, within the framework of a national system reorganised
in the spirit of European integration. This objective is justified by the
social demand that with the acquired knowledge in schools, our youth is able to
fit into the system of requirements of Romanian society and labour
market, so that they can have equal chances of success in their homeland in the
first decades of the new millennium.
On
the other hand, it tries to be suitable for the well delineated organisational, professional and contents demands of the
internal building process, validating the interests of local society (local
authorities, communities of parents, student self-governments). It would like
to provide support and a political hinterland for the parents, the professional
and civic organisations that represent the interests
of pupils, schools and educators.
Higher
Education
The
DAHR continues to consider the establishment of an independent Hungarian
language public university as its fundamental objective. For that reason, our parliamentary
group will continue to do all the possible forms of initiation allowed by the
laws. Until our higher education institute in the mother tongue is established,
we will continue to support the extension of the forms of education in
Hungarian within the existing public universities. Our aim is to extend the
possibilities of training in the mother tongue, with a special emphasis on
technical and agricultural education, in order to secure the recruitment of
professionals in the important leading branches of the end of millennium. We
dedicate a special attention to restart the higher education in Hungarian in
the field of music.
At
the same time we treat the extension of the possibilities in higher education,
in this manner the support for a foundation-owned, private
The
validation of the principle of regionalism and the extension of our higher
education network presumes the settlement of new higher education institutions,
faculties in towns where such institutions had not existed before. In such
places, the DAHR representations in the local government have to provide the
necessary premises and the administrational background for the educational
activity, with the support of civil society, associations and foundations, as
the central government has no intentions to undertake those tasks.
In
order to supply the Hungarian higher education with professionals, the
reassessment of post-university training types and the necessary organisational frameworks and financial conditions must
receive a stressed role. We must support programmes
to help young scholars that study abroad to return and promote the usage of
their knowledge at home.
Public
Education
The
DAHR strives to create viable schools that provide quality education. It
considers the further development of the Hungarian educational network and its
extension according to realistic local needs a permanent task.
A
special attention needs to be given for the education of the diaspora. We must ensure the education in the mother
tongue of those living in the diaspora, the operation
of small schools and classes. In order to sustain the education in the diaspora, the travelling
conditions have to be improved, hostels established and operated. These can be
achieved by a more effective usage of foundation support, by the co-ordination
of the diaspora projects of civic organisations
and churches.
We
must create the different forms of education in the mother tongue guaranteed by
laws in the areas inhabited by the Changoes
(Hungarian speaking natives of
We
consider necessary the extension of the Hungarian language vocational
education. We support the starting of vocational and industrial classes
equipped with modern infrastructure, which take local labour
force needs into account, and at the same time we also stimulate short term
professional courses, organised with the contribution
of entrepreneurs.
For
the sake of an easier integration into society of the handicapped children we
have to extend their educational possibilities. Our aim is to build a Hungarian
language special educational institutional system. We have to take into
consideration and reckon with the fact that the education and training of the
handicapped is more expensive than the activity of a general school, but we
have also got to count on the demand for these special services.
In
order to achieve a broader institutional autonomy, the increase in the number
of representative schools is also of stressed importance.
Tasks
in the development of education:
·
establishment of new, Hungarian groups of educational
research, intellectual and scientific workgroups and the ensuring of the
conditions of operation of those that already exist;
·
the revision of the national basic study programme that regulates public education in order to
decrease the burden on pupils;
·
the introduction of mother tongue education and of the
subjects that form national conscience (development of language abilities,
teaching of national history, acquisition of musical mother tongue) in the
framework study plan;
·
the operation of a publishing house for Hungarian
manuals within the framework of market economy, in order to elaborate and
publish our own manuals;
·
solutions for the further professional training of our
educators;
·
accreditation of the continuing education forms
operated by our civic organisations;
·
financial support for our educators, depending on
their performance;
·
remedy for the inequitable situation of Hungarian
nursery and primary school teachers (4-5 surplus hours weekly);
·
the development of the infrastructure of our
educational institutions;
·
ensuring the technical conditions for the teaching of
basic computer science issues;
·
operation
of projects to modernise and update school libraries.
We
consider the modernisation of education in Hungarian
and the fulfilment of the educational reform utterly
important. As a consequence of the gradual process of decentralisation,
the role of local governments in sustaining the schools and choosing their
educational profiles continues to increase. Elected representatives of the
local power can have a decisive contribution to the improvement of the quality
of education, by developing systems of incentives for the professional staff
(official residence, bonuses, and benefits).
The
DAHR considers the support of denominational education and the enlargement of
their conditions as its task both in the area of legislation and in the
executive branch. This is of primary importance in
The
formation of the national conscience in the Hungarian youth living its life as
a minority in Romania, the raising of the awareness that our culture is part of
the universal Hungarian culture, our basic human obligation being to preserve,
foster and enrich it, these all are emphasised tasks
of the educational and training activity of our institutions.
Culture
Culture
is an important basic layer of the preservation our national existence and
identity. The cognition, preservation and passing on of cultural heritage, as
well as the creation of new values and an effective support provided for
constructive work are all organic parts of individual and community life. The
safeguard of our cultural life is cultural autonomy.
The
norms of cultural autonomy are built on the principle of self-government also
recommended by the
Main
objectives of the cultural policy of the DAHR:
·
the preservation of national cultural heritage, the
development and fostering of the ability to create culture, the fulfilment of an inter-ethnic partnership;
·
the safeguard of our cultural autonomy on the long
term cannot be anything else than the elaboration and adoption of a Cultural
Statute for National Minorities, the political, financial and administrative
condition of which must be secured;
·
ensuring the statute of public utility organisations for the associations and foundations
registered on a national level and which have a significant activity
background;
·
the establishment and sustaining of a
·
the stimulation and fostering of our connections with
the universal Hungarian cultural life;
·
the elaboration of a new law on archives, according to
which the trust of professional archives – an autonomous body not subordinated
to the Ministry of Interior – has only got co-ordination and professional
management authorities;
·
decentralisation
of the system of archives, the establishment of county and locally subordinated
archives;
·
the reform of the system of performing arts, based on
four different sources of money open for competition: central government,
county, local, public foundation – in a way that makes possible the shaping of
the support system for Hungarian theatres and puppet theatres;
·
the amendment of the sponsorship law (amounts for
sponsorship should not be deduced from the tax base but from the tax itself;
even greater benefits should be secured for certain areas);
·
a certain percentage of the income achieved by the
company that organises public lottery should be used
for cultural purposes;
·
elaboration of the law about the right to information;
·
prevention of exclusion experiments in areas with an
ethnically mixed population (members of national minorities must be employed in
all cultural, national, territorial institutions according to their
proportion);
·
special support for communities endangered by
assimilation;
·
stimulation and support for the cultural endeavours of the diaspora –
press and book distribution, cultural associations and non-professional
groups);
·
support for the Transylvanian Hungarian Cultural
Association (EMKE), the organisation that
co-ordinates our cultural life and also undertakes interest safeguarding tasks;
·
we want to use freely, along with the state ones, our
national symbols during our festivities, gatherings;
·
increased support for professional cultural
institutions, the advertising of works of art by modern means (CD, video,
Internet);
·
establishment
of funds to collect, store, preserve and popularise
our specific objective and intellectual values with modern tools.
The
DAHR refuses any kind of ideological or political censorship. It embraces by
its entire means all the initiatives that fight against the suppression of the
democratic public opinion.
For
the fulfilment of its objectives it is indispensably
important that the Hungarian national community receive an equitable share of
public funding, participate in the professional bodies and in accordance with
the new legal regulations effectively possess its confiscated material goods.
Church Policy
"Restitutio in integrum"
Our
historical churches, in addition to their natural role, are also the
trustworthy and traditional social and mother tongue protecting organisations, with which the DAHR has built and wants to
maintain a continuous connection. Therefore we consider co-operation important
in shaping common strategies, social programmes, and
elaborating draft laws.
The
basic principles of our church policy are the following:
The
DAHR is equally open toward all churches and denominations, and respects the
freedom of conscience of all its members. It dedicates special attention to the
minority churches, with a smaller number of believers, as these, over and above
their specific tasks, are the authentic social institutions of a national and
cultural minority with hundreds of years of tradition.
At
the same time we strongly support the overall prevalence of religious liberty
and freedom of conscience, as well as the respect for the autonomy of churches.
The
DAHR continues to fight for the restitution of the property rights of all the nationalised, confiscated, and not yet returned movable and
real estate property of churches. We also struggle for the restitution of wound
up church institutions, the security of the their
functioning conditions, and for the public support of re-established religious
orders.
The
DAHR stresses the importance and urges for the following legal regulations that
concern churches:
·
the earliest possible proposal in the Parliament of
the new draft law on churches; guaranteeing of the equality of denominations;
·
equitable and proportionate subventions for recognised churches, based on the principle of affirmative
action;
·
tax exemption for the economic activities that ensure
the uphold and undisturbed operation of churches;
·
spiritual care accordingly to the denomination of each
patient in hospitals, prisons and the army;
·
church holidays to be declared official holidays;
·
state support for the preservation and restoration of
church monuments, in function of their architectural and historic value;
·
the immediate restitution to the rightful owners of
all moveable and real estate property taken away by any means during the period
of communist dictatorship (land, buildings, forests, foundation property,
libraries, archives, objects with religious value, etc.)
·
restitution and securing the conditions for the
unhindered activity of all the church institutions, schools, hospitals, elderly
care centres, other social institutions, libraries,
collections with a scientific or historic value, as well as of religious
orders;
·
only
public administration permits should be necessary for church-related
constructions, and the churches should be the only ones entitled to decide
about practicality viewpoints.
With
its own means, our
·
the establishment and the undertaking of cultural
roles by the truly necessary and useful church institutions (active in areas of
social care, education, culture, economy, and co-operatives);
·
the written demand of the Chango
community in
·
state
subsidies and organisation on all levels for
denominational schools.
The
DAHR assumes a close cooperation with the historic Hungarian churches in
Media Strategy
The
most important areas of the free utilisation of the
mother tongue are: public life, education, culture and the media.
The
third millennium meets us in a period of unprecedented media development. The
printed press is joined today by satellite broadcast radio and television programmes and the Internet. The barometer, or the
measuring scales for the provision of minority rights are the free press in the
mother tongue, the public radio and television stations financed from
tax-payers’ money, as well as the private Hungarian electronic media, that is
prospering in a natural competition with Romanian language stations.
The
cause of the Hungarian written and electronic media can be found with an equal
emphasis among the primary objectives of the DAHR, alongside with those of the
education and culture.
Principles
and practical aims:
·
The Hungarians in
·
The
·
The
·
Offers an outstanding support for the cultural and
stratum publications, traditionally sustainable only through systems of art
patronage;
·
The DAHR takes part in providing information to the diaspora: it supports the distribution of printed papers
and books for the smaller Hungarian communities;
·
We support the training of journalists and the
education of the newly recruited young journalists for the benefit of the
written and electronic media;
·
The
·
It supports the trend that under the specific
Transylvanian circumstances, private papers and broadcasting studios should
also undertake public objectives;
·
It initiates a national survey about the
"habits" of Transylvanian Hungarian media consumers, in order to realise a better assessment of the situation, and for the
elaboration of a strategy;
·
In the spirit of free information flow, the Alliance
considers important the free dissemination of the Hungarian language press from
Hungary and elsewhere, and the taking over without impediments of radio and
television programmes broadcast in the Hungarian
language;
·
The Alliance supports the further development of the
Hungarian language media, broadcast from Hungary by satellite, into regional
institutions in which Hungarian television and radio editorial staffs from
Romania will receive running time;
·
In the area of electronic media, the aim of the
·
the
DAHR initiates the establishment of at least one small community VHF radio station
for the Chango community, in order to strengthen the
self-identity and the community spirit of the Hungarians in
The political means
Politics
is about reality and about creating situations. Successful politics is the
ability to exploit the possibilities that are exploitable and those that have
to be exploited. Results can be achieved with commitment and consistency, and
with the reasonable, realistic choice of the methods and tools.
Political
action taking, especially for a minority politician cannot have an end in
itself, but has to be an act of responsibility assumption for the whole of the
community. We have been assuming and we will continue to assume the
representation of the interests of the Hungarian national community in
– Supplement to Chapter II of the Electoral Programme* –
The complete document can be found at the Department
for Local Government of the DAHR,
and
at the territorial organisations
1.
·
ensure the independent activity of the "Gergely Csíky" High School
in
·
flood prevention measures at the lower reach of the Fekete Körös and Fehér Körös rivers;
·
link
·
build the 8 km long final part of the highway linking Pécska and Nagypereg;
·
begin and continue the installation of natural gas in
the areas of
·
build and develop a drinking water network in the
areas of Zerénd, Ágya, Szapárliget, Nagyiratos, Kisiratos, Majlát-Monostor, Kispereg, and Pécska;
·
set up a road border crossing point at Kürtös;
·
develop the customs tax free zone at Kürtös;
·
enlarge the
·
re-erect the Statue of Liberty in
·
renovate and modernise the
building of the Hungarian high school dormitory in
·
build a garbage incinerator in
·
support
for the local governments in favour of the villages
that demand their separation from the community they are part of (Kisiratos, Nagyvarjas, Szentpál, Zimándköz, Simonyifalva, Vadász, Ágya, Szapárliget, Majlát).
·
Beszterce
(Bistrita-Nasaud) County:
·
link Beszterce (Bistrita) to the
West-East freeway.
The
following road sections serve settlements with Hungarian-speaking population,
therefore we ask for the rehabilitation or building of these sections:
·
Árpástó-Magyardécse;
Mezoakna-Nagynyulas; Apanagyfalu-
Kékesnagyfalu; Szentmáté – Lompérd; Mezoveresegyháza – Szentmáté; Kékes – Zsombor; Harina – Szászszentgyörgy; Sajtóudvarhely
– Magyarbréte; Mezokecsed –
Köbölkút; Köbölkút – Oroszfája.
Drinking
water networks and sewerage installations should be set up in the following
settlements with Hungarian-speaking population:
·
Árpástó
– Magyardécse – Várkudu; Kékes – Magyarborzás – Szászzsombor – Mezoveresegyháza, Tacs – Szegotelke – Szentmáté – Újos – Zselyk – Mezoköbölkút – Oroszfája – Komlód – Magyarnemegye – Apanagyfalu – Almásmálom – Vice – Retteg – Baca
– Csicsómihályfalva – Nagysajó
– Sajóudvarhely – Magyarbréte
– Somkerék – Sajószentandrás
– Teke – Felor – Alsóilosva – Csicsókeresztúr – Mezoörményes;
·
natural gas pipes should be introduced, and the
telephone network should be built in the settlements with Hungarian-speaking
population, and an environment friendly refuse dump has to be established in Beszterce and Bethlen (Beclean);
·
churches need general renovation in the following
localities: Sajóudvarhely, Oroszfája,
Komlód, Tacs, Naszód (Nasaud), Alsóilosva (Ilva Mica), Fuzkút, Csicsókeresztúr;
·
monument buildings, mansion houses need renovation in
the following localities: Pozmus, Kékes,
Komlód, Sajóudvarhely, Bethlen, Sófalva, Árokalja;
·
regain
the possession of the BOMBARDIR building complex in Beszterce.
In case it does not work out, support is needed for the building of the
Hungarian House;
·
finish the THANKSGIVING HOME in Beszterce;
·
organise
and start Hungarian technical school classes in Beszterce
and Bethlen;
·
solve
the problem of V-VIII class education in Mezoköbölkút,
Újos, Cegotelke, etc.
Support should be provided for the “Andrei Muresanu”
·
monuments need renovation in the following localities:
Cserhalom, Vice, Bethlen, Óradna;
·
provide transmission time and funds for the Hungarian
broadcast at the local radio and television stations in Beszterce;
·
request for the programme of
the DUNA TV to be picked up also in Dorna Vátra (Vatra Dornei);
·
the localities of Cserhalom-Cegotelke:
establish the infrastructure for the Carpathian Basin Youth Camp;
·
buy and renovate the Wesselényi-Mansion
in Kékes;
·
Radnaborberek:
develop the infrastructure necessary for village tourism;
·
establish a sewerage storage tank, a remains pits, and
a disinfecting centre;
·
further training of mayors and local government
representatives in economics, law, and public administration;
·
promote
local handicrafts.
·
·
widen the Nagyvárad (
·
build a ring-road that bypasses Nagyvárad;
·
make the
·
electrification of the railroad between Nagyvárad and Kolozsvár;
·
open border crossing points at Mihályfalva
and Székelyhíd, build the connected infrastructure;
·
customs free zone, industrial park and logistical
centre built between Nagyvárad and the border;
·
introduce natural gas to Nagyvárad,
Nagyszalonta (Salonta),
·
building and development of the water and sewerage
networks;
·
star a programme to help the
equipment of households with water-meters;
·
establish model farms in
·
establish
a farmer-training centre in Nagyszalonta.
·
Brassó
(
·
link Brassó (
·
build an international airport in the vicinity of Brassó;
·
establish an ecological refuse dump in the vicinity of
Brassó;
·
build up the water and sewerage networks of
micro-regions;
·
solve district-heating and the introduction of natural
gas in the settlements inhabited by Hungarians;
·
change
the classification of village roads into county roads, and the rehabilitation
of the roads that link Hungarian-inhabited localities.
·
Fehér
(Alba) County
·
build a flood protection system on the Maros;
·
liquidate the deposit area of residual materials
produced by the chemical plant in Marosújvár (Ocna de Mures), equip the
chemical plant in Zalatna (Zlatna)
with filters;
·
build modern refuse dumps;
·
return the teachers’ flats in Nagyenyed
(Aiud) into the ownership of the "Bethlen Gábor" College;
·
provide concrete assistance foe local governments in
the infrastructure development;
·
advance
the renovation work of the fortress is Nagyenyed.
·
Hargita
(Harghita) County
·
project and build the main natural gas pipeline in the
lower Csík area between Kisbacon
and Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc), renew the mains between Székelyudvarhely
(Odorheiu Secuiesc) and Csíkszereda in order to permit the connection of the
communities in lower Csík;
·
extend the natural gas system in upper Csík by connecting the settlements of the region to it;
·
build the main natural gas duct between Maroshévíz (Toplita) and Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni),
link the surrounding settlements to the natural gas network;
·
rehabilitation of county and local roads;
·
execute the operations related to sewerage in several
localities;
·
finish the apartments built with state support and
construct further ones;
·
complete rural water supply projects;
·
operation of small regional co-operatives;
·
participation in EU-financed programmes
with the aim of rural development, the development of tourism, the protection
of the environment, and the training of the human resources of small regional organisations and programmes
(PHARE, SAPARD, ISPA, ECOS-OUVERTURE, ECOLINKS, etc.);
·
overall
investment in informatics, all local councils and schools should have computers
and Internet access by 2004.
·
Hunyad
(Hunedoara) County
·
establish a V-XII grade Hungarian school in Déva (Deva);
·
development of the Danube-Maros-Körös-Tisza
Euroregion:
·
extend the connection between chambers of commerce;
·
elaborate common programmes,
shaping of investment supportive policies;
·
connection of
·
execution
of the highway between Piski (Simeria)
and the Zsil-valley.
·
develop the partner county relations with
·
co-operate in the organisation
of common environmental protection and flood averting programmes
related to the catchment area of the Tisza river, elaboration and functioning of an information
system (in GIS-system, together with Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mures), Arad,
Nagyvárad (Oradea));
·
restore and protect existing Hungarian-related
monuments;
·
establish a national-level foundation to secure the
tours of cultural and artistic ensembles;
·
elaborate
a general education program for the Hungarian diaspora,
taking into account that schools belong to local councils, therefore it is not
possible to sustain them by entering in competitions for financed projects. The
creation of a students’ dormitory and the operation of a school-bus might be
useful in the Zsil-valley;
·
build the rural tourist chain in the area of Hátszeg (Hateg) through linking
the mansion houses received back by the former Hungarian owners, making use of
the tourist opportunities in the region;
·
include the association of Hungarian entrepreneurs
into the development and interest defending programmes
of similar organisations in
·
elaboration
of partner programmes for settlements with a
Hungarian interest.
·
Kovászna
(Covasna) County
·
link
·
build an international airport in the vicinity of Brassó (
·
modernise
the sections of the road between Szászmogyorós – Barót (Baraolt) – Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu Secuiesc) and Sepsiszentgyörgy – Szászmogyorós;
·
restoration of the landscape deteriorated because of
the closed mine in Koröspatak;
·
transfer the right of exploiting and leasing mineral
water springs to the local authorities;
·
the restitution of the House with
·
build a second bridge in Sepsiszentgyörgy
across the Olt river to link the industrial area with
the Olt field;
·
reduce the size of the gendarme barracks to minimal;
·
develop the networks of natural gas, water supply and
sewerage, renewing and modernising the already
existing ones;
·
repairing and maintenance of the school, kindergarten,
cultural centre buildings owned by the local councils;
·
build
monuments and maintain existing ones.
·
Kolozs
(Cluj) County
·
develop the micro-regions of Aranyos,
Kalotaszeg, Szamos-valley, Mezoség;
·
support the underprivileged regions of the county by
creating jobs, with special attention for the regions inhabited by Hungarians;
·
protection of Hungarian monuments;
·
modernise
the
·
give a boost to industrial production: paper,
cellulose, furniture, glass, canning factories;
·
hire out 30-40% of the former IAS-owned orchards to
co-operatives, on a contractual basis;
·
circles of mechanics and professional organisations, agricultural training with the support of
the Association of Hungarian Smallholders in Romania (RMGE);
·
Krassó-Szörény
(Caras-Severin) County
·
build the passenger traffic between the regions of neighbouring countries;
·
establish common agricultural ventures in the border
area;
·
development of the underprivileged areas (Stájerlakanina, the Zsil-valley, Abrudbánya(Abrud));
·
put the railway between Oravicabánya
(Oravita) and Báziás (Bazias) back in function, build tourist centres,
hotels, motels along the railway between Oravicabánya
and Anina, invest in the realisation
of mineral waters and drinking waters in the region;
·
connect
the industrial town and county capital of Resicabánya
to the international traffic network, build the railway between Resicabánya (
·
get connected to the Hungarian university and high
school network;
·
network of minority press distribution, support for
education in the diaspora;
·
establish
DAHR partner organisations.
·
Maros
(Mures) County
·
flood protection measures along the rivers of Maros – Nyárád and Küküllo;
·
extend the telephone network both in rural and urban
areas;
·
environment protecting silviculture
with respect to the organisation of common forest
ownership;
·
water management, the decrease of the pollution level
of rivers, water supply for the Nyárád-valley and the
Mezoség;
·
establish town and community refuse dumps and make
them function appropriately;
·
tourism in the area of Sóvidék,
the privatisation of the Szováta
(Sovata) spa;
·
support for the entrepreneurs of
·
support for the local governments in favour of the villages that demand their separation from
the community they are part of (Buzásbesenyo, Kibéd, Mezomadaras, Üvegcsur);
·
repair and modernisation of
road E60, the extension and maintenance of the county network of roads;
·
linking
·
strengthen the university and school town character of
Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mures);
·
establish further Hungarian-language secondary and
high schools;
·
the transformation of the "Bolyai"
High School into a denominational, Reformed College;
·
the transfer of the "Teleki"
Library into the ownership of the local administration;
·
urge
the appointment of well-qualified Hungarian professionals into the leading
positions of public institutions.
·
Nagybánya
(Baia Mare,
·
development of the infrastructure in the
Hungarian-inhabited settlements of the area (Koltó-Katalin,
Szamoshát, Domokos, Sárosmagyarberkesz); networks of road, natural gas,
pipelines, telephone and electricity;
·
link the county to the freeway-system;
·
building stronger relations of commerce with
·
professional and financial support for small and
medium-sized enterprises in the localities of interest for Hungarians, with a
special attention to include local (Hungarian-related) traditions in tourism,
agricultural ventures (food industry, silviculture,
small scale and craft industry, the rehabilitation of specific monuments and
buildings;
·
harmonisation
of the environmental protection with the set of conditions of the EU;
·
create the conditions for an environmentally friendly
operation of polluting commercial companies in Nagybánya,
or – if that is not possible – their closing down without creating tensions;
·
attraction
of budget and other capital to support the previously enumerated activities.
·
Szatmár
(
·
establish environmentally friendly refuse dumps in the
localities of Szatmárnémeti (
·
establish a southern industrial park in Szatmárnémeti;
·
modernisation
of the lighting system of the runway of the international airport in Szatmárnémeti;
·
modernisation
of the water supply and cleaning systems in Szatmárnémeti;
·
building the ring-road at Szatmárnémeti;
·
build the main natural gas network in the area of Aranyosmedgyes – Tasnád – Nagykároly;
·
build the main natural gas network in the area of Apa – Avasfelsofalu – Máramarossziget (Sighetul Marmatiei);
·
open
up the border crossing point at Csalános on a
permanent basis.
·
Szeben
(
·
link the county to the freeway-system;
·
quality water supply for the towns of Erzsébetváros (Dumbraveni), Medgyes (Medias), Kiskapus (Copsa Mica), and the villages along the Küküllo
river;
·
diminish the degree of pollution of the Nagyküküllo;
·
build asphalt roads in and between: Szászalmád (Almavi) – 3 km, Somogy (Smig) – 5 km, Nagykapus (Copsa Mica) – 3 km, Dupus – 4 km, Riomfalva (Richis) – Szászmozsna (Mosna) – 14 km, Vízakna (Ocna Sibiului) – 7 km;
·
natural gas supply for Szászalmád
and Szászsáros;
·
restoration of monuments: the castle in Bolya (14th century); the
·
extend and develop the "Báthory"
School in Medgyes;
·
form a Bolyai memorial spot
in Bolya;
·
make
a monument for the memory of the battle in Vízakna in
1849.
·
Szilágy
(Salaj) County
·
ensure the real functioning of the Carpathian Euroregion;
·
ensure the water supply from the catchment
area of the Küküllo, for the towns in
·
solve the natural gas supply of the localities along
the rivers of Kraszna and Berettyó;
·
develop the infrastructure of the communities, build
roads that permit these localities to participate in the economic circulation (Kárásztelek, Kémer, Diósd, Szilágysámson);
·
renovate
the foundation of the Wesselényi-statue in Zilah (Zalau), a monument that
represents the national self-conscience of Hungarians in the region.
·
Temes
(Timis) County
·
solving the problems connected to the Hungarian House
in Temesvár (
·
regain the ownership of the Piarist
group of buildings;
·
permanently open the border crossing point at Csanád-Kiszombor (in the first half year), open a customs
free zone later;
·
start building the freeway as soon as possible;
·
modify the law on education to permit an emphasised care for the mother tongue education of the diaspora;
·
establish a college for the diaspora
in Temesvár;
·
the separation of some village with a predominantly
Hungarian population from the communities they presently belong to and the
formation of new communities (Ótelek, Végvár) within the framework of the reform of public
administration;
·
the restoration of the Bega-Temes
dam, and the possibility to navigate on the Bega;
·
build the railway between Temesvár
– Csanád –
·
support for the urbanism plan of Zsombolya
from central budgetary sources;
·
restoration of the railway bridge at Újarad;
·
build the ring-road around Temesvár;
·
renew the flood protection system;
·
stop the thermal power station in Temesvár
and its replacement with other sources of energy;
·
support for the functioning of the Danube-Maros-Tisza-Körös Euroregion also
from central budgetary funds;
·
support
from the central government for programmes of rural
tourism (Újszentes, Igazfalva).