Romanian authorities removed billboard promoting multilingualism

The Dutch resident Transylvanian businessman, Gábor Landman, thinks that it is a cheap objection by the Romanians to remove his billboard urging multilingualism on the ground that it could be confused with road signs, kronika.ro wrote.

With his billboard set up in Gyalu the activist tried to argue in favor of multilingual place signs in Cluj/Kolozsvár. He sent a message to the Mayor: “Mr. Boc! My company needs Schengen, not chauvinism!” Emil Boc, as a Prime Minister, promised Romania would join the Schengen convention.

Gábor Landman told kronika.ro that he bought the advertising place for a month to promote language rights and to advertise his company as well. When he can make sure that it was the Mayor who removed the ad, he will report Boc to the authorities.

According to the businessman, the multilingual place sign could have been a free advertisement for the town. He said that the Romanian politicians have done nothing for the European integration and the Schengen accession. Landman thinks it is unprecedented in Europe that a country refuses to place a free multilingual place sign.

Gábor Landman said that he grew up in the Netherlands, and he is actually Dutch, but he considers himself a European man. He is outraged that the Romanian politics maintains ethnic hatred and chauvinism.