Following a recent court order, the Hungarian, the Szekler, as well as the administrative flag of the county had to be removed from the assembly hall of the Covasna County Council.
The mayor of Corund/Korond received a fine of nearly 100 thousand euros for a Hungarian inscription
The Civic Association for Dignity in Europe (ADEC), led by Dan Tanasă, asked the courts back in 2016 to call on the mayor of Corund/Korond to take down the “Községháza” (meaning town hall in Hungarian) inscription from the forefront of the building.
Hunor Kelemen, the president of DAHR, was denied entry into Ukraine without any explanation
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.
Bilingual inscriptions continue to be taken down in Romania
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.
Prominent Romanian political leaders incite hatred against the Hungarian community
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.