Romania Speeding

From Yahoo:
"Romania to speed up Holocaust-era property restitution"

Romania is to fast-track claims from Holocaust survivors under an amended law on property restitution which is expected to be passed by parliament next week, legislators said on Tuesday. Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany during World War Two until it changed sides in August 1944, and much of the property seized during the war was later nationalized under communist rule which followed. After the collapse of communist rule, Romania passed laws for returning property to the original owners in the 1990s but red tape prevented legislation from having any real effect. The country used to have a pre-war Jewish population of about 800,000 but now only up to 11,000 Jews live in Romania. An international commission, in a 2004 report, put the total number of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews who perished in territories under Romanian administration at 280,000 to 380,000 people. A draft law, published on parliament's website, said that in processing applications for the return of property priority would be given to "requests by people certified as Holocaust survivors by entities designated by the Romanian state or other European Union states ..." The draft easily cleared the upper house of parliament last week and will go to a final vote next Wednesday in the lower house, legislators said. Politicians expected it to win overwhelming support in the lower house.

^ This is long over-do. I understand that the Communists didn't allow the property taken by the Nazis to go back to their rightful owners, but Communism ended in Romania in 1989  - 27 years ago - so there is no reason it has taken this long. Hopefully, now the survivors and their families will get what should never have been taken from them during World War 2 or kept from them during Communist times. ^

https://www.yahoo.com/news/romania-speed-holocaust-era-property-restitution-153552375.html?nhp=1