Hunor Kelemen, the president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR) was banned from Ukraine for a year and a half. Kelemen broke the news himself on his social media account, after he was not allowed to enter the country this past weekend.
The Civic Association for Dignity in Europe, led by Dan Tanasă, a widely known anti-Hungarian nationalist provocateur, continue their vicious fight against Hungarian signs and inscriptions. Their latest action resulted in a first degree court ruling ordering the removal of a bilingual greeting sign on the border between Covasna/Kovászna county and Brașov/Brassó county.
The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians (DAHR) in Romania held its biyearly congress this past weekend, where – among other things – the roughly 1000 delegates of the organisation adopted a resolution, in which they stipulated that the Hungarian flag, the Szekler flag, as well as the Hungarian and the Szekler anthem are the national symbols of the Hungarian community in Romania. This was necessary in light of the increased scrutiny by Romanian authorities in recent years against the use of these flags, as well as against the singing in public of the two anthems, a scrutiny that often resulted in legal action and even fines for the use of the above-mentioned symbols.
Despite the outrage of students, professors, prominent political leaders and the entire Hungarian community of Romania in general, the merge of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș and the Petru Maior University was finalised in September, and consequently the already unstable and never quite fully materialised multicultural aspect of the university is in more peril than ever before, as the percentage of Hungarian students and professors dropped significantly. To add insult to injury, in early 2019 the senate of the university decided to establish an English faculty, after resisting for years the idea of creating a Hungarian department, as required by the 2011 Law on Education, on the grounds that it would violate the autonomy of the university.
The mayor of Miercurea Nirajului/Nyárádszereda is one of many Hungarian local officials who have been caught up in legal battles in recent years for putting up the Szekler flag on the buildings of the local administration.