5 November was proclaimed by UNESCO as the World Day of Romani Language in 2015 to promote the preservation of Romani language and culture, improve the well-being of Romani people, and recognise the importance of all languages, whose diversity is a source of strength for all societies to share.
The initiative for this day was launched by the Croatian parliament in 2012. The World Day of Romani Language has been organised by the Kali Sara Alliance of Roma in Croatia since 2009
Kajtazi said that initiatives launched by the Roma community seldom took root and became widely accepted, expressing satisfaction with the tradition of marking the World Day of Romani Language.
At the start of Wednesday’s meeting of Parliament, two opposition lawmakers, Marin Miletić of the Bridge party and Stipo Mlinarić of the Homeland Movement strongly criticised the latest column of journalist Boris Dežulović published on the website of the N1 broadcaster in which he criticised the tradition of commemorating the anniversaries of the fall of Vukovar at the start of the Homeland War in 1991.
Marijan Pavliček of the Croatian Sovereignists party said he was confident that his party’s initiative for collecting signatures for the petition for a referendum against the introduction of the euro would succeed.
