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Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the online petition:

   "Petition against student and tourist visas in Europe"

hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:

www.PetitionOnline.com/novisa/

I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might
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signing yourself.

Best wishes,

Aleksandar Nikolovski

The life of foreign students in Romania

What’s the life for any student? What are the conditions? What is our wish? Our motivations? Our hopes? Our daily problems? Who are WE? What means to be a student? What means to be a student in foreign country? What are the benefits of that? And so much more existing questions in our minds…

We used to say “mind is a terrible thing, don’t waste it “. And we are right! No matter where we are, no matter who we are, we exist and our name is STUDENTS!

All students have their own life, especially if they are in a foreign country, such as Romania. All the foreign students, I’m sure we have the same problem as: washing clothes, washing dishes, making meal and we always have time and place for limitless possibilities and student power to invest our time in distinctive and vibrant ways. In our free time we have opportunities for research, sports, social events, nightlife, theatre and the arts, hiking & outdoor recreation, and all levels and types of activism. All foreign students that are in Romania have one same life style no matter where are they from: Macedonia, Libya, Iraq, Greece, Albania etc. We all believe that if you are student in other country, your experience is much, much richer, because we are at the same time making 3-4 colleges. I hope you believe some of this, but if you don’t…then I’ll take some examples: I’m sure that every foreign student knows how to make meal no matter what sex it is, male or female. Every student studies for electrician, computer technology, plumper, and even carpenter for furniture. This kind of study is optional, and no matter what we want, we all have to learn it!:) Most of us, like the nightlife much more than studying, while other students came here with clear goal: EDUCATION! I think we have time for everything! But that doesn’t mean that we haven’t problems. Problems, concerning place for living, exams and much, much more. The offers of Romania are big: after 2007 we can be near the EU, near the whole possibilities that one European country can give us.

But it’s not gold all that glitters, for us…the prices for public transport are much expensive, we don’t have famous REDUCERE of 50% like Romanian students. Our scholarship isn’t enough to pay what we spend, even we can’t afford more than one week. Not to criticize the conditions in the student dorms which are miserable, uncomfortable, and not satisfying the basic student needs. It steel looks so far away from the European standards and even it doesn’t looks very optimistic. I don’t say anything for the problems with the different languages, and alphabets. Because that’s our choice, and no one give us obligation for that. It’s our wish our right. OUR CHOICE.

Well, that’s the life of foreign students in Romania, hope I wasn’t too critical about Romania, but it’s just the way of our life. We still hope that this can be changed, and with your understanding, hope that this can be much better. Also I would like to say that these problems aren’t so different with the Romanian student problems. As already said: WE ARE ALL STUDENTS!

Aleksandar Nikolovski
Macedonia, student in Constanta, Romania
(from: atdr.ro/condei/egalite-fraternite/the-life-of-foreign-students-in-romania/ )

RECOMMENDATION 1333 (1997) on the Aromanian culture and language

The Assembly is concerned about the critical situation of the Aromanian culture and language, which have existed for over two thousand years in the Balkan peninsula.

Whereas there were over 500 000 Aromanian speakers at the beginning of the twentieth century, there are now only about half that number, dispersed through Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and Serbia, which are their home countries, as well as Romania, Germany, the United States of America and Australia. Most of them are elderly. Aromanian, as a minority language, is under threat.

The scale of the problem has become evident since the extension of cultural co-operation to the Balkans, the home of Aromanian.

The Aromanian language and culture are facing a similar fate to that of many European cultures which are becoming or have become extinct. However, the acceptance of a pluralist system of cultural values is a prerequisite for stability in Europe, and particularly in the Balkans.

The Aromanians make no political demands, but merely want assistance in safeguarding their language and culture, which seem doomed to extinction unless the European institutions, and the Council of Europe in particular, come to their aid.

The Assembly recalls the texts which it has adopted on related matters, notably Recommendation 928 (1981) on the educational and cultural problems of minority languages and dialects in Europe, Recommendation 1283 (1996) on history and the learning of history in Europe, and Recommendation 1291 (1996) on Yiddish culture.

The latter text recommended setting up, under the auspices of the Council of Europe, a "laboratory for dispersed ethnic minorities" with a mandate, inter alia, to promote the survival of minority cultures or their memory, carry out surveys of persons still speaking minority languages, record, collect and preserve their monuments and evidence of their language and folklore, publish basic documents and promote legislation to protect minority cultures against discrimination or annihilation.

The Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:

1. encourage Balkan states which comprise Aromanian communities to sign, ratify and implement the European Charter of Regional or Minority Languages and invite them to support the Aromanians, particularly in the following fields:
   • education in their mother tongue;
   • religious services in Aromanian in their churches;
   • newspapers, magazines and radio and television programmes in Aromanian;
   • support for their cultural associations;
2. invite the other member states to support the Aromanian language, for instance by creating university professorships in the subject and disseminating the most interesting products of Aromanian culture throughout Europe by means of translations, anthologies, courses, exhibitions and theatrical productions;
3. introduce fellowships for artists, writers, researchers and students from Aromanian minority groups throughout the Balkans, so that they can engage in appropriate creative work in the fields of Aromanian language and culture;
4. request the Council for Cultural Co-operation, working together with recognised Aromanian academic centres, to ensure co-ordination of Aromanian cultural activities throughout Europe;
5. invite the education ministers of member states to include the history of Aromanian in European history books;
6. seek to establish co-operation and partnership with organisations, foundations and other interested bodies in the private sector with a view to implementing these recommendations;
7. take account of Aromanian culture in its follow-up to Recommendation 1291 (1996), particularly where the "laboratory for dispersed ethnic minorities" is concerned.
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Assembly debate on 24 June 1997 (18th Sitting) (see Doc. 7728, report of the Committee on Culture and Education, rapporteur: Mr de Puig).
(from: www.coe.ro/as_rec1333-1997_en.html  )


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