Romania’s governing program will widen national minorities’ rights so that they can preserve their cultural and ethnic identity, Prime Minister Emil Boc said in early January, local media reports. Asked whether the governing program includes a new law regarding national minorities, Boc said there is no new law, but a normative act regarding national minorities, which takes into account the Constitution and the Venice Commission.

The Hungarians in several localities from Transylvania com-memorated last week 160 years from the sacrifice of the 13 generals during the 1848 Hungarian Revolution.