CJEU decision, not only Szeklers, Basque country allies win, but all EU countries(Izsak Balazs)

Chairman of the Szekler National Council (CNS) Izsak Balazs on Thursday said after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) set aside the judgment of the General Court and annulled the European Commission's decision by which they refused to register the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) titled "Cohesion Policy for the Equality of the Regions and Sustainability of the Regional Cultures", that by this decision not only the Szeklers and their allies from the Basque country stand to win, but all the European Union's countries, including Romania and Slovakia, that were against it. Today, at 9:30 the CJEU delivered its judgment. The Citizens' Initiative conceived by the CNS has been forwarded to the European Commission in June 2013 and it was denied by the latter on reason that on the proposed topic the EC has no competence. I was sure the EC was wrong, was interpreting wrongly the community law and this is even included in the CJEU's press release, in its very title, where it says: "The Commission erred in law by refusing to register the European citizens' initiative aimed at improving the situation of national minority regions." This morning a legal battle, which took place firstly at the General Court, then at the CJEU, has come to an end. In a first instance, the General Court sided with the EC, we appealed this decision too with the CJEU. The essential matter about today's ruling is that it provides for the annulment of the General Court decision and the rebuttal of the 2013 annulment by which the EC refused our initiative. (...) Those sides that were against us in the trial - the EC, Romania and Slovakia - are not defeated either because the initiative's contents itself provides measures that guarantee the harmonious development of the EU. Not only the Szeklers and our allies from the Basque country stand to win, but all the EU countries, Romania and Slovakia included. Should the Szeklers do well, should money enter the Szeklers' land from the cohesion funds, then that money enters Romania, Izsak Balazs told a news conference in central Targu Mures. He said that now everything depends on the European Commission, which has two months to register the initiative of the Szekler National Council.AGERPRES(RO - author: Dorina Matis, editor: Karina Olteanu; EN - author: Maria Voican, editor: Simona Iacob)