His Holiness Laurentiu Streza, a Bishop of Transylvania and also a president of the Gojdu Foundation, is demanding the state of Romania to support his intention to sue Hungary in order to recuperate the inheritance left by Emanuil Gojdu. His announcement comes one wek after the Parliament in Bucharest dismissed the Romanian-Hungarian Agreement on the making of a Budapest foundation to see to the properties the famous Romanian jurist left to the "Romanian nation". The Bishop comments: "It will be an action taken together with the state of Romania against the state of Hungary (...) Juridical action will be the next step to take, but I don't know how it should be done. I am not acting on behalf of the Bishopric, but on behalf of the Foundation. We need a lawyers' company to approach the case." He admits it will be no easy trial, since it is about a great fortune and at the moment the Gojdu Foundation is lacking the money involved by such a juridical initiative.According to the Bishop, sponsorship or deals with lawyers' companies may be the solutions. (...) Fortune of billions His Holiness comments that the Foundation with offices in Sibiu, Romania, has got some billion Euro to take back, even if some of the 8 Gojdu buildings in central Budapest have already got to have different owners. He argues: "We are not so illusionary to think we shall get all those buildings back, for they are now under trial. But the worth can be calculated any time. And there were funds in banks too, which can be proved. They tried to ground the new foundation on funny funds such as 200,000 Euro from Romania and 200,000 Euro from Hungary. So they want 400, 000 Euro to replace an inheritance of million or even billion Euro." He adds the Foundation will sue Hungary on grounds of the agreement Romania and Hungary signed in 1937. Budapest takes the agreement signed under communism for good The Hungarian government has expressed disappointment at the Romanian Parliament's refusal to ratify the Romanian-Hungarian agreement on the Gojdu foundation. The government in Budapest has insisted that an intergovernmental agreement between Romania and Hungary, signed in 1953, by which both states gave up their property claims, is still valid. There has also been argued that is is why the difficulties related to the Gojdu inheritance are settled.

Ovidiu BANCHES