The Hungarian government welcomes that Serbia has submitted its official application to join the European Union, the government spokesman’s office told MTI in a statement on Tuesday.
Belgrade’s decision is a “historic milestone”: the country’s joining the EU is a “crucial factor of stability”, the statement said.
The document noted that Hungary will continue to support the endeavors of Serbia and other countries of the Western Balkans for European integration in the future.
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And now we wait for Vona/Jobbik lobbying that EU should not allow Serbia as EU Member State, until Serbia has given back all pre-Trianon land.
Viking your staggering ignorance continues to betray you. Why would Jobbik oppose Serbia joining the EU when the Vajdaság has been autonomous since 1974. The autonomy was rescinded by Milosevic, reinstated in 2002 and reconfirmed by the Serbian parliament in November of this year.
The problem is that no similar autonomy exists in Magyar majority areas in Slovakia and Romania, and that the accession of these countries was permitted without even the promise of autonomy. Though Slovakia joined in the same wave as Hungary, we could certainly, and should definitely, have attached more preconditions to Romania’s joining.
Again, if you knew absolutely anything about this region, and didn’t come to this site just to make bitchy little anti-Jobbik comments… you would know all of this already.
And when making all these snide statements, we never here you committing yourself, despite all your whining. So…
(1) Do you approve of the Vajdaság’s autonomous status? If so, what opposition do you have to Magyar majority communities in other successor states having similar arrangements? If you have such an opposition what is your justification?
And,
(2) Do you believe the Trianon boundaries to be just? If so, you should be aware that the driving principle behind them was “self-determination” of separate ethnic groups. Do you oppose this principle of self-determination? If not, I refer you again to question 1.
So,
(3) Of the following groups: the EU, the UN, the international press, the majority of the Hungarian media, all the current Hungarian parliamentary parties and Jobbik; which is the only one that does not see the means to achieving such autonomy for these ethnic communities to be: do as little as possible, and hope (if you can actually be bothered to do something as active as “hope”), that it will just – all of a sudden – magically happen on its own.
(1) Do you approve of the Vajdaság’s autonomous status?
bobscountrybunker at December 23, 2009 10:34 PM
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I do not live there, so I have no specific opinion.
If people living there are happy with that, I am happy for them.
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(2) Do you believe the Trianon boundaries to be just?
bobscountrybunker at December 23, 2009 10:34 PM
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They are as just as all other borders in Europe.
In what sense did the local people have any say in all those borders that were established before and after Trianon?
Why should just the Hungarian Trianon-borders be different in history?
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The 3rd point is a bit hard to see any question, but the drive to get autonomy is always a local thing, it is hardly outsiders thing to force such solutions on top of people.
It would be interesting to see some stats on how much time Jobbik demands ‘revision of the Trianon-borders’ in comparison to a very limited demand of local autonomy.
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Taking this autonomy question a bit further, if the Schwab-minority in Hungary would like to get autonomy (you do have clusters living west of Budapest and around Pecs), would Jobbik then support their demand?
On a conceptual level at this time, then no real demands and actual areas are being discussed at the moment.
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You are wrong again when you claim that I never produce alternatives, because I always do.
The alternative is ‘Nations’, not ‘States’ as in ‘NationState’ or ‘NationalState’ existing inside a Federal EU, your bad Super-EU.
Look up old posts.