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Hungary to help ethnic kin in Serbia
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised help to Hungarian minority in Serbia mostly in the domain of education and information. Orban’s promises come after he met with the President of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians Istvan Pastor. Orban is attended St Istvan’s day in Subotica on August 14. This is the 15th celebration of St Istvan’s day,... »
Hungary offers support for Serbia’s EU bid
Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, visiting Belgrade on Thursday, signed a memorandum of agreement to provide administrative aid to Serbia in its efforts toward European integration. At a joint news conference in Belgrade with his Serbian counterpart, Vuk Jeremic, Martonyi said it was important to keep the West Balkan region moving toward a European Union... »
Slovak PM Slams “Extremist” Hungary
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico Friday denounced Hungary, which has granted dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians in neighboring states, as an “extremist country that exports its brown plague.” Fico made the comment in an interview with France’s Le Figaro newspaper in which he said that Hungary was behaving as if its northern neighbor Slovakia didn’t... »
Slovakia to strip citizenship from Hungarians
Slovakia has approved legislation, now signed into law by the president, which will allow the authorities to strip citizenship from Slovaks who become Hungarian citizens. In a tit-for tat move against Hungary, the Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic on Monday signed into law legislation to allow stripping ethnic Hungarians living in the country of their Slovak... »
Slovakia fears Hungary citizenship plan
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico Thursday slammed plans by the new government of southern neighbor Hungary to make dual citizenship more accessible to the region’s ethnic Hungarians. “If Hungary passes this act, Slovakia will view it as a security threat,” Fico told reporters. “We will view this unilateral step as a violation of international law and... »
Hungary, Serbia to get multi million projects
Hungary and Serbia can count on 18.5 million euros (about 27.5 million U.S. dollars) in European Union funds to use in cross-border projects over the next three years, a high-ranking official of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday. Istvan Ujhelyi, a state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, told local newswire MTI that the... »
Serbia, Hungary seek better relations
Serbian President Boris Tadic and Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom have agreed to deepen the relations between the two neighboring states by working together to resolve the issue of ethnic minorities, historical disputes over Serbia’s Vojvodina province and Hungarian participation in the Nazi genocide of Jews, Serbs and Roma in the province during the WWII. “Serbia’s... »
Serbia, Hungary discuss law on minority rights
Serbian President Boris Tadic will visit Hungary next Monday and Tuesday to discuss a law concerning Serbian Hungarians with the Hungarian president and prime minister, local newswire MTI reported on Friday. Hungarians are eager to discuss a recently adopted law by the parliament in Belgrade that offers ethnic minorities cultural autonomy. The law provides the 300,000... »
Hungarians don’t need autonomy in Serbia, FM
Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz has said that it is not realistic to speak about any kind of territorial autonomy for the Hungarians in Vojvodina and that, in the opinion of the Hungarian government, it would be far better to fight for Serbia’s visa liberalisation than to raise the issue of dual citizenship for... »
Hungarians don't need autonomy in Serbia, FM
Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz has said that it is not realistic to speak about any kind of territorial autonomy for the Hungarians in Vojvodina and that, in the opinion of the Hungarian government, it would be far better to fight for Serbia’s visa liberalisation than to raise the issue of dual citizenship for... »
