The Year 2000 Elections in Romania: Interethnic Relations and European Integration
The Year 2000 Elections in Romania: Interethnic Relations and European Integration

Contributor(s): Allen H. Kassof (Editor), Livia Plaks (Editor)
Subject(s): Post-Communist Transformation, Inter-Ethnic Relations, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: PER Project on Ethnic Relations
Keywords: Romanian Anti-Hungarianism; Roma in Romania;
Summary/Abstract: Despite the difficulties that have beset Romania in its transition from communism to democracy, it boasts a most important success in interethnic relations. Few would have predicted, after the disastrous violence between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians in Tirgu Mures in 1990, that only six years later the ethnic Hungarian party would be a respected member of Romania’s governing coalition.The Project on Ethnic Relations was an active participant in bringing about this result, initiating the first discussions and negotiations between leaders of the preceding government and the Hungarian minority, and replacing confrontation with a pattern of dialogue that persists to this day. The achievement, however, is untested by time. With the year 2000 elections underway in Romania, ethnic issues are already being raised in the campaign.

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