"Point of departure: « The Kosovo situation brings forward one of the most discomforting questions of this fin de siècle: are minorities seeds of state dissolutions? And further: are ethnic (or religious, for that matter) minorities inherently conflict-arising? Romania was recently quoted, by the American President Bill Clinton, as an example where the answer seemed reassuring, in contrast to its south-west neighbour, where conflicts have kept the tension high for the last 8 years. As soon as Romania was appreciated in a more or less positive context, the representatives of the Hungarian minority cried out that the situation, by far, is not idyllic and that, on the contrary, minorities have a hard time even in Romania, having to climb over many barriers in order to preserve their identity. Once again, the minority and the majority had found a “battlefield” set for confrontation, in a lose-lose situation, since none of the parties can win on such terms. »"

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