Németh: New Chance For Hungary-Romania Ties
- 1 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
The appointment of a new president in Romania, Klaus Iohannis, creates a new opportunity for ties “which have stagnated for almost three years” to be set on a new path, Zsolt Németh, chairman of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said in Parliament after meeting Balázs Izsák, chairman of the Szekler National Council.
Németh said renewed relations between the two countries were also in the interest of Transylvanian Hungarians. Izsak said his organisation struggled for the autonomy of Szeklerland using democratic means, and Hungary’s support was exceptionally important.
Recently it launched a European civil initiative with a view to getting European cohesion support for cultural regions. He noted that the European Commission had rejected the initiative, following which the Council launched a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice.
The Hungarian government intervened on the side of the Council, he added.
The issue at stake, said Németh, is whether Europe becomes a Europe of regions or “a Europe characterised by Brussels bureaucracy and the centralisation of nation-state nationalisms.”
Hungary wants a Europe of regions, and it will act both in the EU and the Council of Europe in support of this idea.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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