The European Capitals of Culture initiative was set up to:

-highlight the richness and diversity of European cultures and celebrate the cultural ties that link Europeans together

-bring people from different European countries into contact with each other's culture and promote mutual understanding -foster a feeling of European citizenship give new vitality to their cultural life   raise their international profile, and boost tourism  and enhance their image in the eyes of their own inhabitants.

LEEUWARDEN CANDIDATE  EUROPEAN  CAPITAL OF CULTURE  2018

CLUJ-NAPOCA CANDIDATE  EUROPEAN  CAPITALS OF CULTURE  2020

 

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 DIFFERENCES

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TWO EUROPEAN CAPITALS OF CULTURE

1. BILANGUAL SIGNS ARE MISSING IN CLUJ-NAPOCA. ALTHOUGH  BOTH  CITIES ARE THE  CAPITAL CITIES OF AN OFFICIAL    REGIONAL LANGUAGE. 

 

4 IN LEEUWARDEN THE ETHNIC BULLYING OF FRISIANS BELONGS TO THE PAST.

IN CLUJ-NAPOCA THE AUTONOMOUS HUNGARIANS ARE TILL PRESENT DAY STILL TREATED AS CONQUERED PEOPLE BY THE AUTHORITIES.

5.IN LEEUWARDEN YOU CAN FIND  STATUES OF FRISIAN COWS, HORSES, DOGS AND FRISIAN SKATERS. THERE ARE NO DUTCH NATIONALISTS OR CORRUPT CHAUVINISTIC MAYORS WHO PUT ILLEGAL MONOLINGUAL PLAQUETTES ON THESE STATUES WHICH DENY THE FRISIAN ORIGIN OF THESE PEOPLE OR ANIMALS !

 

2. IN THE NETHERLANDS FRISIANS CAN FREELY USE THE FRISIAN FLAG IN LJOUWERT, IN CLUJ-NAPOCA THIS IS STILL A SENSIBLE THING AFTER YEARS OF FUNAR CHAUVINISM !

HUNGARIAN LANGUAGES IS BANNED  FROM PUBLIC ADMINISTARTION

3. IN FRISIA, THE USAGE OF THE FRISIAN LANGUAGES IS ENCOURAGED.

IN CLUJ-NAPOCA  NO EXCUSES HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR BANNING THE PUBLIC USE OF HUNGARIAN !

6. FRISIANS  CAN USE  THEIR OWN CAR SIGN, THEY CAN EVEN USE A MAP OF THE FRISIAN LANGUAGE TERRITORY IN EUROPE WITHOUT BEING ATTACKED  BY DUTCH NATIONALISTS  !

NO ONE FORCES FRISIANS TO BECOME DUTCH.   THEY ARE FREE TO USE FRISIAN NAMES, WRITE AND SPEAK  FRISIAN WITH THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES !

 

 

 

 

THE FRISIAN LANGUAGE IS

FREELY USED !

THE FRISIAN  FLAG CAN BE FREELY USED IN LJOUWERT

IN LEEUWARDEN THE GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO SPEAK FRISAIN. IN CLUJ-NAPOCA RACIST AND XENOPHOB SIGNS HAD BEEN PLACED WHICH OPENLY DISENCOUREGADED THE OF  HUNGARIAN IN PUBLIC !  THE SIGN ABOVE STATES “ ART. 13 IN ROMANIA THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IS ROMANIAN “

THIS SUMMER THE POLICE OF CLUJ-NAPOCA ARRESTED HUNGARIANS FOR HAVING A HUNGARIAN PLACE SIGN OF KOLOZSVAR AND TORDA  WITH THEM. HUNGARIAN WELCOMING SIGNS HAVE BEEN REMOVED IMMEDIATELY !

Szövegdoboz: END MAY 2011, RIGHT AFTER THE RENOVATION OF THE STATUE AN ILLEGAL PLAQUETTE APPEARED,WHICH STATED THAY KING MATTHIAS WAS NOT HUNGARIAN BUT ROMANIAN INSTEAD. THIS SIGN HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY BEEN GUARDED BY EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CLUJ-NAPOCA

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LEEUWARDEN 1951, OPPRESSION OF FRISIANS  LANGUAGE RIGHTS

CLUJ-NAPOCA  2011, OPPRESSION OF HUNGARIAN  LANGUAGE RIGHTS .

1.Bilanguale signs are missing although required by law.

2.Free use of national symbols, Frisians are free and don’t live in fear.

3.Use of regional languages should be encouraged instead of being denied.

4.Ethnic bullying belongs to the past in Ljouwert, In Cluj-Napoca this is still present

5.Frisian identity is accepted and undisguised.

6.No forced assimilation or social pressure to become Romanian.

7. Schengen or  Chauvinsm

7. ROMANIA WANTS TO JOIN SCHENGEN, THE NETHERLANDS DOESN’T WANT ROMANIA TO JOIN. 

 

OBVIOUSLY THE DUTCH  VETO FOR ROMANIA IS NOT BASED ON THE SIX POINTS ABOVE, BUT ON  THE FACT THAT THE ROMANIAN LEGAL SYSTEM IS NOT TRANSPARANT AND CORRUPTION IS PARAMOUNT.  HOWEVER THE  FRISIAN EXAMPLE CLEARLY PROVES  THAT ROMANIA’S PERCEPTION AND RESPECTATION OF EUROPEAN , NATIONAL AND BILATERAL LAWS AND EUROPEAN VALUES DIFFERS FUNDAMENTALY FROM DUTCH LEGAL PRACTICE.

ROMANIA AND THE NETHERLANDS BOTH RATIFIED THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES AND THE EUROPEAN CHARTA OF REGIONAL LANGUAGES, BESIDES  THIS THE USAGE OF THE REGIONAL LANGUAGE IS ALSO REGULATED BY  NATIONAL  LAW AMONGST OTHERS (ROMANIA: 215/2001, H.G 1206/ 2001),  ( NETHERLANDS GEBRUIK FRIESE TAAL IN HET RECHTSVERKEER. ). ACCORDING TO THE TREATY BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY AND ROMANIA ON UNDERSTANDING, COOPERATION AND GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ; NATIONAL LAW 215/2001, GOVERNMENTAL DECREE 1206/2001, THE DECISION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CLUJ-NAPOCA. THE USAGE OF THE REGIONAL LANGUAGE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTARTION IS COMPULSORY IN CLUJ-NAPOCA.

 

 

CLUJ-NAPOCA  24-3-2012

CLUJ-NAPOCA  2005 ELECTION POSTERS OF THE GREAT ROMANIA PARTY

FUNAR STATED THAT “ONLY STREET DOGS SHOULD HAVE THE COLOURS OF THE  HUNGARIAN FLAG”

LEEUWARDEN 2012