László Tőkés

The chair of the Hungarian National Council from Transylvania (CNMT), Tokes Laszlo, stated, on Wednesday, in a press conference held in western Cluj-Napoca, that the regime change in December 1989 is not complete if there are not changes in what regards minorities.

The year 1989 meant the end of the communist regime in the Central and Eastern European countries. Romania was the only ex-communist country in the case of which the switch to democracy was violent, involving protests and street fights, and the only country where the leaders of the former regime got executed.

As she has done for the past two decades on December 21, a 47-year-old woman walked alone through downtown Bucharest on Monday, starting in Piata Universitatii, the capital's main square, where she laid a few flowers by a large cross.

Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Corina Cretu is hailing the decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeal to overrule a court action initiated by Laszlo Tokes challenging the decision of the Honour Council of Romania's Star national order to strip Tokes of the order, saying that the decision is moral as well as perfectly legal.