"Romanians and Székely must set aside their Prejudicies" - Adevărul

The daily Adevărul attempts to calm the heated debate over the autonomy of the Hungarian-speaking Székely minority in Romania. "The Romanian legend that you can't buy bread in Székely Land [because of linguistic problems] still haunts people's minds. The Székely, for their part, tend to view the Romanian authorities more as an occupying power than as a partner. Romanian and Hungarian intellectuals will nod to each other in greeting but they speak rarely, if at all. Not so much as a word is wasted over a common school textbook on the history of Transylvania. We know so little about each other! ... Should we really shelve the idea of administrative reform along European lines just because we're not able to give Székely Land a fitting status? This question should no longer be left to the propagandists, but should be the subject of an honest political debate in which every side renounces something for the common good, so that both the Székely and the Romanians feel equally at home. Europe has plenty of examples from which to take inspiration." (22/03/2010)