Necesitatea unei legi pentru declararea zilei de 4 iunie ca Zi a Tratatului de la Trianon
The necessity of a law for declaring the 4th of June as the Day of the Treaty of Trianon

Summary/Abstract: On 4 June 2020, Romania marks the Centenary from the signing of the Peace Treaty of Trianon. An essential page of the history of the Romanian nation, which took the form of a peace treaty concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers, including Romania, with Hungary, as the successor state of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a state defeated in the World War I. By the content of this peace treaty, the Great Powers recognized the Union of Transylvania (and of the Eastern part of Banat) with Romania, respectively the sovereign will of the Transylvanian Romanians expressed by means of plebiscite on 1 December 1918 and, respectively, the Resolution of the National Assembly from Alba Iulia. The Treaty of Trianon has enshrined the realization of the right to self-determination of the nations of the Austro-Hungarian dualist monarchy. For Romania, the mentioned Peace Treaty meant not only the international legal recognition of the Union of Transylvania with the Motherland, but also the confirmation of the political and civil rights of the Romanians who constituted the majority population in this territory. Beyond the historical and political-legal meanings of the Treaty of Trianon, this is in itself a document that, for the Romanians, has strong spiritual valences, which justifies the marking of its signature by a solemn legislative act of the Romanian Parliament. From this perspective, the author refers to a legislative proposal – under final adoption procedure – which aims to declare the day of 4th of June as the Day of the Treaty of Trianon and to regulate the adequate measures for the proper marking of this day at national and local level. At the same time, the author makes the critical analysis of two laws adopted in 2010 by Hungary, namely a new law of the Hungarian citizenship and a law of the „unity of the Hungarian nation”, meant to „commemorate the dictate” of Trianon. The political and legal analysis of the two Hungarian laws reveals the political will and intention of the legislator from the neighbouring country to question or even to challenge the provisions or the consequences of the Peace Treaty of 4 June 1920 – subsequently taken over in various other bilateral or multilateral international major regulations. By adopting the two legislative acts, the Hungarian Parliament contradicts the bilateral strategic partnership relationship with Romania, but also the meaning and the spirit of the principles of the European construction, in which the two neighbouring countries occupy equal positions.

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