Zsolt Nemeth, head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said on Wednesday that Hungary’s ethnic minority will only have long-term rights guarantees if it is granted autonomy.
Hungarians in Transylvania should be granted the power to make decisions on their own matters and autonomy would also ensure that Hungarian becomes an official language in Romania, he told MTI.
Nemeth (Fidesz) and the committee’s deputy chairman Jozsef Kozma (Socialist) are visiting Bucharest to meet local ethnic Hungarian leaders, and have held talks with heads of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) and the Hungarian Civic Party (MPP).
Nemeth welcomed that RMDSZ has joined forces with the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania for the upcoming European Parliamentary elections.
“The more MEPs represent Transylvanian Hungarians in the European Parliament, the likelier it is that ethnic Hungarian communities will achieve their aims in Transylvania,” Nemeth said. Autonomy is of crucial importance among these aims, he added.
NEVER;NEVER;NEVER;NEVER;NEVER;NEVER!!!!!!!
NICIODATA;NICIODATA;NICIODATA;NICIODATA;NICIODATA!!!!!!!!
SOHA SEM;SOHA SEM; SOHA SEM; SOHA SEM!!!!!!!!
Hungarians have been there before the Romanians, and why not? These are ethnic Hungarians who have been treated as foreigners in there own lands which date back before the coming of Arpad, and there is proof of this in the chronicles. Justice for Hungarians and autonomy.
@Mihály: I don’t think those who want an independent Transylvania should concentrate on who was there first, but perhaps on why autonomy would be better for all those living there now (including non ethnic Hungarians)… just an idea from a foreigner
For Erdély to obtain independence or come back under the umbrella of the Mother Country would unfortunately take a war at the minimum.
I subscribe to the opinion of John. There is a strong conviction among Hungarians and Szekelers that the latter camed with Attila and remained in Transylvania after the disappearance of his kingdom. This is however FALSE, most up to date international recognized version of the history, not just that of the Romanians, is that Szekelers were “plannted” after Arpad in Transylvania. I wouldn’t comment on the fairytales in the Hungarian version of the history. YET the conviction is very strong, based on centuries of expansionist propaganda. On the other hand there is a very strong conviction on the Romanian side that Arpad defeated the Valachian Principalities of Gelu, Glad and Menumorut which were already founded at the time of his conquest of Transylvania. Even Hungarian sources support this argument. BUT of course between Romanians and Hungarians objectivity in this issue is impossible.
Anyway, the fact is that at the time of Trianon there were 31% Hungarian speaking and 54% Romanians in Transylvania. Moreover nowadays there is no single Romanian who would agree to autonomy in Harghita and Covasna, not to speak of Romanian politicians. While this fact strikes in the head the Hungarian never ending emancipation for a Great Hungary it remains the naked truth.
Thus what will be left will be a military confrontation. I hope EU will offer an alternative to that. If not history will repeat again and again, Romanians and Hungarians will die defending their version of the truth
Hah. Romanians commenting on revisionist history. Funny.
There is a reason, my dear, why Romanian historians are given no credibility on the world stage.
There is actually a rather recent case when Hungarians and Romanians could agree very good.
It was that the Romanian Army let that ‘Circus-Admiral on a white horse’ (Horthy if that description did not do it) go to Budapest to fall Kun Bela in the back while he was liberating the Hungarian part of Romania.
Sometimes Class is more important than Nation.
Horthy, the ‘Tiszta Magyars’ big hero came to power with the help of the Romanian Army.
It is really not so strange, Lenin was allowed free travel through Europe to fix some problems for the Tsar, so Russia would go out of WWI.
Both Horthy and Lenin delivered, so history was changed.
Obviously there is no way Hungarians and Romanians will have a common view on history. So comments are worthless.
Fact remains that, as always, Romanians are the majority in Transylvania and there is no single one of us who will cease to defend our land. As we sing in Transylvania, “we are Romanians, we are Romanians, we are here for eternity the masters”.
The sooner Hungarians learn this, the better will be the relationship between us. And another thing you should learn is that kingdoms rise and fall, people stay. And we staied!
As a nation-state, Romania was formed by the merging of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859 and it gained recognition of its independence in 1878.
Much earlier, in 11th century, Transylvania became a largely autonomous part of the Kingdom of Hungary, and became the independent as Principality of Transylvania from the 16th century.
Later it was donated to Romania by the Trianon Treaty, which was obviously a scam and the time to revise and correct it has come. Transylvania should be an independent state.
@Anonymous: I suggest you take history more seriously than satisfy with the fairy tales you heard from grandpa’:-)
Mihai,
I posted facts. Not available in your biased history books. You may want to do some research on the real history of Romania, and forget the nationalistic propaganda they teach you in schools.
@Anonymous: it’s funny… the same things we would recommend you…for decades.