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1. 1. IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 86, October 23, 1999

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   Published on: 10/26/1999   Last Visited: 2/10/2001

   Marian Chiriac in Bucharest reports.
   
   ROMANIAN SHOCK JOCKS THREATEN REFORM. Market-oriented reforms, minority rights and reconciliation with Hungary could all be threatened by nationalism being stoked by nationalist media.
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   Marian Chiriac in Bucharest
   
   When in late July Romania's Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu and his Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi agreed to build a historical reconciliation park in the Transylvanian town of Arad, their initiative was seen as a symbolic gesture, designed to illustrate how relations between their two peoples have improved in recent years.
   
   But this month the planned ceremony to lay the reconciliation park's foundation stone failed to take place as a result of opposition from both Romania's left and its ultra-nationalist opposition. Moreover, this failure is but the latest of a series of recent setbacks to Romanian-Hungarian relations.
   
   In mid-September the Hungarian consul in the central Romanian city of Cluj was accused by the city mayor of being a spy and asked to leave the country. Moreover, the expulsion followed an increasingly acrimonious war of words during which Romanian opposition politicians have warned on a near daily basis against Hungarian revisionism".
   
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   Marian Chiriac is news editor of the MediaFax News Agency in Bucharest and editor of Foreign Policy, a quarterly published by the Romanian Academic Society.
   
   ROMANIAN SHOCK JOCKS THREATEN REFORM
   
   Market-oriented reforms, minority rights and rec
   
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