Guests from all over the world will arrive to the event hosted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan democracy. The jubilee ceremony will take place in the Sera Jay monastery demolished by the Chinese in Tibet and rebuilt in India.

The tenth edition of the Youth Business Programme (YBP) started this week in Miercurea Ciuc. The contest is organized by the Calasanctius Training Program and  CTP Transylvania in collaboration with the Youth Council of the Ciuc Region between 2-7 August.

Teaching the Hungarian language in Moldova and the possibility of the Csangos to practice their religion in Hungarian was the main subject of the roundtable held at the Summer University at Tuşnad on Wednesday, July 3rd.

Knowledge-based societies work only if we are able to put the aquired knowledge in the service of good and useful initiatives – said DAHR’s MEP Csaba Sógor at the scientific conference held on the occasion of the town days in Remetea, Harghita County.

The Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages of the European Parliament held its monthly meeting at the plenary sitting of the EP on July 8. The agenda included the report of Rundfunk- Anstalt Südtirol (RAS) public radio and television agency for the autonomous Province of Bozen.

DAHR’s MEP Csaba Sógor (drew attention to) reminded about the rights and living conditions of national minorities in the West-Balkans in his remarks during one-minute speeches on the opening day of the plenary sitting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on July 5. In his opinion some third countries ensure more freedom for the language use of these communities that the member states.

MEPs Csaba Sógor, Gyula Winkler and Sebastian Bodu’s presentation entitled Your Choice: public life or economic sector in the EU opened Saturday’s round of discussions of the EU camp. Taking into consideration the current state of affairs, the MEPs talked about the interaction between the public and the private sector.

One of the main subjects of the plenary sitting of the European Parliament in June was the overview of the EU’s foreign relations. The evaluation of the situation in Gaza, the Korean peninsula and Bosnia-Herzegovina, as well as the relation between the EU and Russia was made through the MEP’s debate and vote the next day. Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy took part in the debates.

Strawberry cultivators from Satu Mare County took part on-of a two-day study trip to Germany and Alsace courtesy to DAHR’s MEP Csaba Sógor.