Viktor Orban, leader of Hungary’s main opposition Fidesz party, talked about the importance of efforts to re-unite the Hungarian nation at a rally held in Senta, a city in the north Serbian Vojvodina province, on Wednesday.
Hungarians living in Hungary proper and in ethnic communities in neighbouring countries share a common fate: they will prosper together or disappear as a nation, Orban told his audience. He added that unifying the nation was not only a spiritual but an economic issue as well.
Orban encouraged participants to sign the sheets necessary for the establishment of local national councils, and said that each name was a “stitch for the nation to be re-united”.
Under Serbia’s new law on ethnic councils the Hungarian community in Vojvodina – less than 300,000 people – need to collect 118,000 signatures to directly elect their 35-strong national council, a form of minority government.
I’m wondering how does he plan to make this “re-union”. And when?
Hungary will never be “enlarged” to its original
pre-Trianon state and people just have to accept
history and get on with their lives. The EU will
never allow it, and today the EU can do whatever the
hell it wants. Did anybody vote for the EU Foreign
Minister? Somebody who apparently has never had a
“proper job” and has had accusations against her for
accepting Soviet funds during the 1970s. Plus who
does Orban think will pay for all of this?
Your claim that Hungarians in Vojvodina need 118.000 signatures to elect their minority council is simply not true: according to the law, any minority with more than 100.000. members has a right to elect 35-strong council. Electoral lists need to have 1% percent of signatures of the minority members (which is 3.000. signatures approximately for Hungarians).The only “obstacle” is obligation to register voters on special minority lists, at least 50% (minus 20%)of the total minority number according to the last census.
Reuniting the old Hungary is really dreamland. It
amazes me that so many people spend so much time on
the topic. It would be so much more productive to
use the EU as a channel to ensure fairness for
Hungarian minorities in the neighbouring countries.
Knocking the EU seems rather pointless considering
that it is realistically the only body that is going
to bring about any change of any kind. Short of
armed revolution, why would the neighbouring
countries have a reason to listen to anyone else?
wikipedia has the info from the census of 1910, that around 50% of the inhabitants of pre-Trianon “Greater Hungary” belonged to the minorities, only about 50% said Hungarian was their mother tongue.
Wonder what the situation is today and what people leaving there would say to the chance of being “re-united” with the “fatherland” ?
If the original borders would be in place they would
be the minority dimwit, and it proves that the
Hungarians didn’t oppress the people who lived
within her Hungarian Kingdom, all commie propaganda.
Nagyboldogasszony the motherland to be more
precise.
Law, the Australians were the minority in Hungary during the Hapsburgs. Does this also mean the Hungarians weren’t oppressed either?
@Law: Isn’t ‘Nagyboldogasszony’ another name for the Virgin Mary? Don’t you mean to say something to do with szülöföld (motherland), Heimat… ?
Erdély and/or Transylvania.Part of Rumania now but, formerly, -Hungary?
Beautiful place and wonderful scenery. I traveled
there last year. I was amazed because many of the villages in the area and beyond the people spoke Hungarian.
I stayed at a place or in a region called (I think) Kolozsvar?
The people were fantastic and I and my friends had a great time. My friends family are from that region and they all consider themselves to be Hungarian.
It seems unlikely now that Hungary will get any of its former(pre-Trianon)territory back. It is a great shame that many Hungarians have been cut-off from their homeland.
I say this merely as an observer.