Make yourself respected by respecting the others!

Nicolae Timofti, president of the Republic of Moldova: the roots of the conflict in Transnistria lies on “the political interests of some states, among them Russia"

In an interview for EuroNews, Nicolae Timofti, president of the Republic of Moldova said that the roots of the conflict in Transnistria lies on “the political interests of some states, among them Russia.” Also, Timofti denies the suposed Russian radar plans for Moldovan border.

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FM Andrei Marga: Relations with Russia should become normal

Foreign Minister Andrei Marga, declared after his nominalisation as minister, that he was in

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Schengen - Germany and France Seek Reintroduction of Controls

According to media reports German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich and his

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Bucharest Summer University

Bucharest Summer University www.bsu.ase.ro/en is an international academic and cultural event

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Romanian Environment Minister Hands In Resignation Amid Corruption Accusations

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely on Thursday handed in his resignation letter

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Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu has met with Italian counterpart Giulio Terzi

Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu, met on Tuesday 27 March with the Minister of Foreign

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"Russian army go home", chants Dublin

Twenty years after the war on Nistru, the Moldovan community from Ireland “Moldova Vision” organized yesterday on March 3rd a protest in front of the Russian Embassy in Dublin. The demonstrators demanded the unconditioned and immediate withdrawal of the Russian troops from the territory of Moldova. They also asked Russia to respect its commitment made at Istanbul Summit in 1999.

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Czech Republic to compensate forcibly sterilized Roma (Gypsy) women

The Czech Government Human Rights Council has recommended compensation for women

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Titus Corlatean: EU-Serbia Association Accord to be ratified with declaration on minorities

Titus Corlatean, the chairman of the Foreign Policy Commission in Senate declared on Tuesday that the accord of Serbia’s accession to EU will be ratified by Senate with a declaration about observing the rights of national minorities. The orientation of my fellow MPs is to approve the ratification of the document, said foreign minister Cristian Diaconescu following hearings in the joint foreign policy commission of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.

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Republic of Moldova introduces chemical castration for paedophiles

The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova voted to make chemical castration

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Republic of Moldova hopes for receiving Roadmap for approximation with EU

The Republic of Moldova needs to have a roadmap that would set priorities of its bilateral and multilateral partnership with the European Union for a short-term period – until the second half of 2013, based on the principles of differentiation “more for more”

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NYTimes about Ukraine's advancement towards the European Union

This day five years ago, the European Union and Ukraine started negotiations

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Romania and Republic of Moldova held their First Joint Government Session

On Saturday in Iasi, the governments of Romania and Republic of Moldova held their first joint government session, during which they signed eight cooperation accords in strategic areas.

The most important agreement signed by the two countries during that historic even was the action plan for the European integration of the Republic of Moldova. Another accord is meant to connect Republic of Moldova’s transportation network to all European corridors transiting Romania. The governments of the two also committed to connecting gas pipelines by the end

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ROMANIA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Press release: Protocol on National Minorities signed with Serbia

On 1 March 2012 in Brussels, the Permanent Representatives of Romania and of Serbia

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Romanian YouthVoice.ro: Two leaders of Romanian/Vlach community from Timoc were aggressed by the Serbian customs officers while returning to Serbia

Although the protocol for respecting the Romanian minority rights in Timoc has been signed just yesterday by Serbia and Romania (before Serbia got the green light for the EU) , the police and customs officers at the border of Serbia with Romania are continuing the intimidation strategy, Romanian Youth Voice reports citing Agerpres News Agency.

During the night 1st to 2nd March, while passing the border in Serbia after a visit in Romania to the Romanian Senate and Romanian Patriarchy, the priest Boian Alecsandrovic and the president of “Ariadnae Filum” Association, Zavisa Jurj, two representatives of Romanian Vlach community in Timoc, Serbia, were aggressed by the Serbian police and customs officers, accused that they support Romania

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Open call for applications for Black Sea Summer University 2012

Open call for applications for the 2012 Black Sea Summer University edition, a 10 day

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Estonian warming-up: "Tantsime kõik lapaduud!", "Youth in Action" project in Romania

Video in the training "Make yourself respected by respecting the others!

'This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.'

Details: www.respect-Romania.blogspot.com

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ForMin Diaconescu: Pro-Europe cooperation, gas transmission and bridge building, highlights of joint governmental meeting of Romania and Republic of Moldova

At their joint session next week, the Romanian and the Moldovan Governments will discuss

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Romanian YouthVoice.ro: Serbia’s EU accession path. Bucharest asks guarantees against assimilation of Romanian-speaking minority of Vlachs from Timoc Valley

A verdict on Serbia's bid to join the European Union was postponed Tuesday when Romania set conditions for Serbia’s obtaining a status of a EU member state candidate, related to a solution to the ‘Wlach issue’ Romanian YouthVoice.ro reports.

Serbia's application to become an EU candidate nation was under scrutiny from European affairs ministers meeting Tuesday in Brussels, and a positive decision was widely expected after critics such as Germany had withdrawn their opposition. But when Romania raised its own critics, Germany said that is regrettable.

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Leonard Orban: In our interpretation, there are serious problems related to national minorities rights in Serbia

Romania believes that, in Serbia, there are serious issues as regards the observance of the national minorities rights, in conditions in which this keeps to the political criterion for the start of accession negotiations to the European Union, said on Wednesday Minister of European Affairs and ExEuropean Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban.

"Our interpretation is very clear: namely that serious problems exist as concerns the observance of national minorities rights in Serbia," said Orban, answering a journalist's question.

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Romania - Over 50% of students completing studies join unemployed ranks

Over half of the students completing college or high school studies join unemployed

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YouthVoice.ro: Daniel Gheorghe: The road for EU integration of Serbia, Cyrillic approaches. Stalin invented ”Moldovan” nation and language, Serbia invents “Vlach” nation and language...

One of the most controversial issues of the European affairs is the creation of fictive national identities in order to assimilate different minority groups inside and extreme nationalist state. This anti-democratic practice was first time elaborated during Stalin totalitarian communist regime. The technique has the purpose to gain and maintain

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Tolerance.ro: Romania determined to block Serbia's candidate bid to the EU because of the invention of “Vlach” language

Romania is determined to block a positive decision on the status bid of Serbia regarding its candidacy to the European Union due to the lack of minority rights for the Romanians in Timoc region, according to Danas, a Belgrade based daily newspaper, Tolerance.ro reports

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PL says there are more than one suitable presidential candidates

Composer Eugen Doga, the president of the Constitutional Court Alexandru Tanase and Moldova’s

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Romanian YouthVoice.ro: “Lucky” Romanians: native speakers of three languages: Romanian, Moldovan (a Soviet fake), Vlah (a Serbian fake). Serbia on the way to create huge diplomatic scandal with Romania

The beginning of 2012 gives the linguists a new area of study. Serbian authorities are planning to invent and standardize a new language “the Vlach language” Romanian YouthVoice.ro reports.

The National Council of the Vlah minority, which should

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Russian Ambassador in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, to start new diplomatic scandal

Valerii Kuzmin, the Russian Ambassador in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova declared that his country plans to open a Consulate in Tiraspol, in Transnistria, the unrecognized separatist region of the Republic of Moldova, Tolerance.ro reports.

Speaking with one representative of the unrecongnised Transnsitria

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Iaşi to host a joint meeting of Governments of Republic of Moldova and Romania

The joint meeting of the Governments of Republic of Moldova and Romania is expected

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Lipcani-Radauti bridge marks two years of reopening

More than 368,000 persons crossed the Lipcani-Radauti bridge during the two years of

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EU expands criteria for sanctions against Belarus

The Council of the European Union decided on 10 February to expand its criteria used to

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Republic of Moldova gives up the plans to hold a constitutional referendum

The leaders of the ruling Alliance for European Integration (AIE) from the Republic of Moldova

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The 4th edition of Bucharest International Student Model United Nations (BISMUN): “Human Security and Positive Liberty”

The 4th edition of Bucharest International Student Model United Nations (BISMUN), the largest

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Serbia accepts a Romanian consulate in Timoc after numerous bilateral negotiations

The Government of Serbia approved the opening of the General Romanian Consulate in Zaicear, Timoc, Eastern Serbia, a region with a significant Vlach (Romanian) community. The Consulate was subject to numerous bilateral

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The reference to the Vlach (Romanian) minority in Eastern Serbia on the Resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, adopted on 25 January 2012

On 25 January 2012, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution 12813 on The Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Serbia, proposed by PACE Monitoring Committee rapporteurs Davit Harutyunyan and Indrek Saar.

Here you have the text regarding the Vlach (Romanian) Minority in Eastern Serbia:
6.7. The National Council of the Vlach Minority
163. In December 2010, our attention was drawn to difficulties encountered during the election of the National Council of the Vlach national minority. We therefore met representatives of three Vlach groups

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NGOs worried about the rise of demonstrations against Gypsies in Bulgaria

Today, gypsy (Roma) people are more and more targeted by the Bulgarian authorities and

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Activity of the Committee for Human Rights Negotin, Timoc, Serbia

Committee for Human Rights Negotin is nongovernmental, nonpolitical and nonprofit

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Debate about the Romanian Democracy: Political abuse and citizens' reaction, 31/01/2012

The purpose of the hearing is to analyze the newest developments regarding the straying of the democratic principles in Romania. Why are Romanians protesting and what are are the main abuses they are complaining about? European leaders, Romanian politicians, civil society representatives and journalists aim to establish a dialogue which has been refused until now.

The meeting will be hosted by Hannes Swoboda , leader of the S&D Group in the EP and Guy Verhofstadt , leader of the ALDE Group in the EP.

Our special guests are the co-presidents of the main opposition alliance in Romania, the Social Liberal Union (USL) – Victor Ponta (president of the Social Democratic Party – PSD), Crin Antonescu (president of the National Liberal Party – PNL

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About the situation of gipsy community in France

The first written traces showing the presence of Roma people on the French territory date back

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Human Rights of Kurdish People in Turkey

Because of the Ottoman Empire’s long (623 years) and big (in 3 continents) ruling, it left

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Qashqai (Azerbaijani Turks) in Iran

"The Qashqai compose a community of settled, semi-settled, and pastoral nomadic households

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TheRepublic.com: Romanian police fire tear gas in 3rd day of anti-government protests against austerity cuts

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters during an anti-government rally Saturday, the third consecutive day of demonstrations against austerity cuts and falling living standards TheRepublic.com reports.

The protests were the most serious since President Traian Basescu came to power in 2004 and were the result

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