Next to UKRAINE - Romania Confronts Transylvanian Separatism

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/  about Romania, the country next to Ukraine. This follows this post about the holiday called St. Patrick's Day. For a free magazine subscription or to get the book shown for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886- 8632. You can follow me at blogspot here and at twitter here https://twitter.com/brianleesblog. Please consider following both in case one goes down!

In Brief... Romania Confronts Transylvanian Separatism

article by Cecil Maranville, Darris McNeely, David Palmer, John Ross Schroeder, Peter Eddington

Romanian President Emil Constantinescu has rejected the call for Transylvanian self-government within a federal Romanian state.

Romanian President Emil Constantinescu has rejected the call for Transylvanian self-government within a federal Romanian state. The devolution argument, while framed in economic terms, has clear ethnic overtones as Transylvania is home to a large population of ethnic Hungarians. The Transylvania question is but one of the ethnic minority issues that continue to plague the new NATO members and aspiring NATO members of Eastern Europe. With NATO seen as effectively sanctioning the devolution, if not independence, of an ethnically Albanian Kosovo from Serbia, keeping these other problems in check will be an increasingly difficult task (STRATFOR's Global Intelligence Update, June 9, 1999).