Before going on their summer holiday, twenty American congressmen - 13 Republicans and 7 democrats - asked Secretary of State John Kerry to protest against the Law of restitution for which the Ponta Government has taken responsibility. The American congressmen were also asking Kerry to pressure the Romanian executive into speeding up the restitution of properties to the Greek-Catholic Church.
The US State Department responded, saying that Washington treats the matter of the restitution of properties of the Hungarian Church, seized in Romania after 1945 as "a priority of the Administration".
We don't know what the reason was for the American congressmen to ask for the resolution of these problems in the restitution of the properties for the Greek-Catholic Church, but not for the Orthodox one, for example, which is in the same situation.
The former owners have recently made a series of accusations concerning the fact that the members of the UDMR, as well as the Hungarian state, are pressuring the Romanian authorities into favoring the restitution in kind for minorities and for certain religious cults.
According to their opinion, certain objectives of national interest in areas such as Harghita and Covasna are restituted to the Hungarian population through irrevocable court rulings, without them being the rightful owners of the buildings in question.
We are in turn suggesting the members of the Romanian parliament write a letter to president Traian Băsescu, protesting the strategic relations between Romania and the United States which are dependent on dealing with the issue of "quantitative easing" that the US is doing, and by which it is harming Romania, an action which should be dealt with within the shortest delays.
If nothing else, printing dollars without any restrictions is harming the European Union (which we are a part of) a
