DAHR president Hunor Kelemen, MEP Csaba Sógor, MP Dénes Seres and Secretary of State and MP candidate Attila Markó met with the representatives of the historical churches from the Sãlaj region on Friday, September 28th.

DAHR’s MEP Csaba Sógor called on young local leaders to prepare local and micro-regional development plans at the 11th edition of the MIÉRT Academy on Friday, September 28th. Along with project development expert András Farkas, the MEP held a presentation at the event with the motto „Young people in local government” and presented a call for applications for the young local government officials with the prize being a professional visit to Brussels.

„Once again, Hungarians in Romania had to face the fact that their country’s leadership does not take their needs into account. There are several well functioning models of minority self-governance all over the world. My proposition was a possible form of this self governance, but it seems that we are not even ready to have theoretical debates on the subject,” said DAHR’s MEP Csaba Sógor regarding today’s decision of the Romanian Senate to reject the legislative proposal concerning the autonomy of Szeklerland, a legislative initiative signed by former MP Dezső Becsek-Garda and former senator Csaba Sógor in 2005.

Young people from five countries are attending the „Minorities and Immigrants of the European Union, Unite!” exchange programme between the 22nd and 29th of September in Cristuru Secuiesc.

The newly finished building of the P. Kelemen Didák in Mereni was inaugurated on Sunday. DAHR president Hunor Kelemen and MEP Csaba Sógor  attended the inauguration ceremony along with almost two hundred guests and local leaders

Almost 200 youth are participating at the 13th edition of the Youth Business Programme organized in Miercurea Ciuc between the 29th of July and the 4 th of August by the Calasanctius Scholarship Foundation, the CTP Transylvania Association, the Sapientia University and the Youth Council of Csik Region.

Close to one hundred young people participated at the fourth edition of the Free University of the Youth Council of Háromszék (HÁRIT) held at Katrosa between the 11th and the 15th of July. The programme contained team contests and various presentations.

MEP Csaba Sógor held a brief lecture about the European Union at the Estelnic local town days on the 1st of July.

MEP Csaba Sógor presented leaders from Remetea, Romania with DAHR’s Family Friendly Community award on the 2nd of June.  In order to halt the demographic decline discovered after the census of 2011, DAHR started the Cooperation for Hungarian Future movement in the field of family policy last December.  As part of this policy, on the 15th of May, twenty local authorities have been honored for their family friendly actions.