Romania's source of strength.In the weeks before Easter three Danish couples visited Transylvania, Romania, to speak at four universities on the values necessary to make democracy function. They were there at the invitation of members of the Romanian judiciary who had attended the MRA MRA Medical Record Administrator. MRA Magnetic resonance angiography, see MR angiography conferences in Caux, Switzerland Caux is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Looking out over Lake Geneva from an altitude of 1000 meters, the Caux conference centre of Initiatives of Change[1] can accommodate up to 450 people. , and who believe that their country's problems will only be addressed through a reformation of people's characters. Even though Romania experienced a bloody revolution in December 1989, the system did not change radically. The Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. became Social Democratic. But the legacy of corruption from the communist time continued. Factories were sold to foreign investors, only to be dismantled. Links with the mafia continue to hamper the free development of the economy. The lecture tour was carried out with support from the Danish Foreign Office Fund for Democracy Courses. The Danes spoke on criminal law, women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and , education for democracy, bridge-building across national boundaries, the free press, and the development of the folk high school folk high school, type of adult education that in its most widely known form originated in Denmark in the middle of the 19th cent. The idea as originally conceived by Bishop Nikolai Grundtvig was to stimulate the intellectual life of young adults (generally from 18 , cooperative and labour movements and the radical social laws of the 1930s. The lectures provoked animated discussions. Seven hundred and fifty students and lecturers were given copies of the Romanian edition of Initiatives for Change--Denmark 1938-55 (see opposite page), by one of the Danes, Keld Jorgensen. After a lecture to a full auditorium at the 1 December 1918 University in Alba Iulia, Augustin Lazar, a former chief state prosecutor and now a professor at the university, thanked the Danish visitors for `taking us back to our deepest Christian roots. You have demonstrated how a small people can build a great future. Since visiting Caux and Denmark, I have explained to my students that spiritual values are like another Marshall Plan Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan took form when U.S. which has brought economic fruits to Danish society.' |
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