Budapest wants granting Hungarian citizenship to 3.5 million Hungarian-speaking
Viktor Orban, the new Hungarian Prime Minister, vowed to make the absolute priority of his mandate. Before you even think about lowering taxes, boost growth, cut public spending, however, essential steps to stem the recession more dramatic in Central Europe, he was granted Hungarian citizenship to 3.5 million Hungarian-speaking living outside its borders. For those ethnic Hungarians who live mainly in neighboring countries (Slovakia, Romania, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Ukraine), the painful " injustice of Trianon", named after the peace treaty in 1920 eponymous amputated the "great Hungary " two-thirds of its territory, had to be repaired.
Just installed on the throne, the leader of Fidesz (conservative) has delivered. With a two-thirds parliamentary majority, the largest ever made to support a democratic government in Europe since the end of World War II, Orban submitted Monday to the House a bill to that effect. It could be adopted on August 20, National Day of Hungary, and enter into force on 1 st January 2011, the day when Hungary will assume the presidency of the European Union for six months. Citing the U.S. example where 117,000 Hungarians settled in the U.S. have dual citizenship, the foreign minister Janos Martonyi said that it would be granted " on an individual basis" to those who would " d ancestry Magyar and Hungarian-speaking .
old sea serpent of Hungarian politics, the question of the nationality of the Hungarian minorities led to the holding of a referendum in 2004, already initiated by the then opposition Fidesz. There it was damned close to that Hungary does not cause a serious crisis with its neighbors in Central Europe. Less than 40% of voters had moved, indicating a relative lack of interest in the subject, and canceled the election.
Much has changed in six years, Hungary has experienced the worst riots in recent history in the fall of 2006, because of the lies of Socialist Prime Minister at the time, Ferenc Gyurcsany, the real state of the economy. Since then, nationalist sentiment flourished in the country, coupled with a widening gulf between the elites and the people. In the far right has created a movement paramilitary, the "Hungarian Guard", disbanded July 2, 2009 by justice but whose members continue to parade carrying the flag striped red and white symbol of the millennium Hungary Arpad, the Magyar Clovis, but also the ex-Nazi party of the "Arrow Cross". Hungarian Prime Minister he signed a compromise with the Jobbik discreet, far-right party halo of 16% of the vote in parliamentary elections on April 25? "Orban wanted to give pledges nationalists, said Anton Pelinka, a political scientist at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. As he did not want to encourage anti-Semitism, or xenophobia, especially against Roma (Gypsies), he played a card more "moderate", that of dual citizenship for Hungarian-speaking minorities abroad .
The danger could come from the interminable quarrel with Slovakia, rather finicky about the status of its Hungarian minority, with about 500 000 people, representing 10% of the total population, which it refuses the exception language. "The initiative Orban is a serious provocation in the eyes of Slovaks , may also Romanians, continues Pelinka. She'll wake nationalism antagonists within the European Union .
If the bill did not make waves in Vojvodina Serbian and Romanian Transylvania, home to large communities in Hungary, Slovakia has already warned that it would protest to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), whose headquarters are in Vienna. Robert Fico, Slovakian Prime Minister, has called a "security threat " projects Fidesz and recalled the Slovak ambassador stationed in Hungary for consultations. Between Bratislava and Budapest, the cloth burning again.
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