{"id":894,"date":"2016-05-15T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.armanami.org\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2016-05-15T08:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T07:47:14","slug":"romanian-parliament-vlachs-are-romanians-not-vlachs-by-alexandru-gica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.armanami.org\/blog\/romanian-parliament-vlachs-are-romanians-not-vlachs-by-alexandru-gica\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Parliament: “Vlachs Are Romanians, Not Vlachs” by A. Gica (HabAr Society Farsarotul newsletter)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In April 2005<\/strong>, the Arumanian Community in Romania (ACR) started the procedure for obtaining the status of a national minority for the Arumanians in Romania. After three years of administrative red tape, the ACR decided to file suit against the Romanian Government for cancelling parts of Government Resolution no. 589\/2001 concerning the founding of the Council of National Minorities in Romania. <\/p>\n

According to article no. 2 of this Resolution, the Council of National Minorities is composed of three members of each organization of a national minority that is represented in the Romanian Parliament. But to have a representative in Parliament, a minority group should be a member of the Council of National Minorities. It therefore seems impossible for any group, other than those 18 national minorities currently represented in the Romanian Parliament, to acquire the status of national minority. This year \u2013 five years later \u2013 this trial between the ACR and the Romanian government will be judged in The European Court of Human Rights. The motivation cited by the ACR for filing its lawsuit is to try to \u201censure protection measures for the Arumanian ethnic group.\u201d<\/p>\n

On\u00a0October, 23, 2007<\/strong>\u00a0the Romanian Parliament adopted Law no. 299\/2007 to support Romanians living outside Romania (formally known as \u201cRomanians from Everywhere\u201d). It was a harsh debate for an amendment that stated that the Arumanians should be included in the category of \u201cRomanians from Everywhere.\u201d We had the weird situation of some Arumanians lobbying for the Arumanians to be considered \u201cRomanians from Everywhere\u201d while other Arumanians were lobbying for the opposite. The amendment was at first adopted but a technical error was invoked, and the voting procedure was repeated. The amendment was rejected the second time, but with a balanced vote. Six years later, on May 8, 2013, the Chamber of Deputies voted on Law no. 176\/2013, which completes Law no. 299\/2007 by specifying what \u201cRomanians from Everywhere\u201d means. Among others in this category, the law included \u201cArmani, Armanji, Aromani, Cutovlahi, Farseroti, Macedoromani, Macedo-Romani, Macedo-Armanji.\u201d This time the vote was very unbalanced (293 voted for the law, 2 voted against it, and there were 5 abstentions). The ACR lobbied against the law before the vote and strongly protested the law when it was passed.<\/p>\n

Even if it seems at first sight that there is no connection with the two events described above, we want to note here that the last national census in Romania (held in October 2011; the final results were published in 2013) counted the Arumanians as Romanians and, what\u2019s more, the number of the Arumanians was not even published; therefore the only information available is from the 2002 census, which counted 25,053 Aromanians and 1,334 Macedo-Romanians. For purposes of comparison, the ACR has around 7,000 members.<\/p>\n

On\u00a0August 9, 2013<\/strong>\u00a0the ACR called a meeting before Romanian government headquarters to commemorate the centenary of the Treaty of Bucharest, which ended the Second Balkan War on August 10, 1913. Around 200 people gathered for this meeting (we should add that it was a very hot day in the middle of the holiday season). Among other banners (to preserve the Arumanian language, to follow the European Parliament\u2019s Recommendation 1.333\u00a0[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/strong>) was one that was against the passage of Law no. 299: \u201cWe want to remain Arumanians!\u201d<\/p>\n

What did the politicians in the Romanian Parliament who voted in favor of Law 176\/2013 (which states that Arumanians are \u201cRomanians from Everywhere\u201d) have in mind? It is only a matter of national pride? Or it is a sign that Romania will be involved again in the Arumanian Question in the Balkans? It is possible that this law will create difficulties for Romania\u2019s relations with other Balkan countries \u2013 in fact, the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, aware of the problems that could arise, did not support this law.<\/p>\n

The Arumanians are usually very loyal towards the country in which they live. This is the first time we have seen an Arumanian organization in a trial against the Government of the host country (we should add here that the members of the ACR consistently speak of their loyalty to and love for Romania).
\n[1]<\/strong>\u00a0On June 24th 1997, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted Recommendation 1333 (1997) on Aromanian culture and language, the most important achievement for the Aromanians ever, which included the following language:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
\ni) encourage Balkan states which comprise Aromanian communities to sign, ratify and implement the European Charter of regional or Minority languages and invite them to support the Aromanians, particularly in the following fields:
\na) education in their mother tongue;
\nb) religious services in Aromanian in their churches;
\nc) newspapers, magazines and radio and television programmes in Aromanian;
\nd) support for their cultural associations;
\ninvite the other member states to support the Aromanian language, for instance by creating\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 university professorships in the subject and disseminating the most interesting products of Aromanian culture throughout Europe by means of translations, anthologies, courses, exhibitions and theatrical productions.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is also remarkable here is the great split between Arumanians who consider themselves Romanians and Arumanians who consider themselves a different ethnic group, and the quarrel over which side is more numerous. Again, the data we have is not definitive.<\/p>\n

The break between the two sides seems to be very serious. The biggest challenge for the future may be to find a project that all Arumanians in Romania can support.<\/p>\n

Cf. : Volume XXVI, Issues 1 & 2\u00a0\u00a0(Fall 2011\/Spring 2012)\u00a0 & Volume XXVII, Issues 1 & 2\u00a0\u00a0(Fall 2012\/Spring 2013)–combined :\u00a0<\/strong><\/u>http:\/\/www.farsarotul.org\/nl32_2.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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