CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF NATIONAL MINORITIES IN ROMANIA

There is no purely ethnic state in Europe, so the constitutional regulation of the tatus of minorities is a necessity. The Constitution of Romania, within the general principles of the constitutional system, regulates the right to preserve, develop and express the ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity of national minorities. These regulations set out the framework within which other constitutional provisions relating to the status of such persons and the general limits imposed to the legislator in defining it, should be laid down.