RIJEKA, July 25 (Hina) - The Italian minority in Croatia maintains that a constitutional bill on minorities which parliament is to address next week should be amended.
RIJEKA, July 25 (Hina) - The Italian minority in Croatia maintains
that a constitutional bill on minorities which parliament is to
address next week should be amended. #L#
The bill does not regulate the issues of indigenousness, cultural
autonomy and dual voting right, and the financing of national
minorities is unclear as well, the president of the Italian Union
Assembly, Maurizio Tremul, told reporters in Rijeka on Thursday.
He praised the bill for regulating the status of minority self-
government, albeit one with it too few powers.
The Italian Union supports the stand expressed by the Italian
community's representative in parliament to give minorities a dual
voting right - general and ethnic, said Tremul.
He stated the latest population census was disastrous for national
minorities in Croatia. Tremul called on the government,
parliament, and representatives of political parties to advocate
the creation of instruments, for example a good constitutional law
on minorities, which will prevent assimilation and ensure the
survival and development of the Italian community in Croatia.
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