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Meciar: Someone Is Planning Conflict in Central Europe
Monday 24 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 24 (TASR) - The latest steps taken by political representation in Hungary vis-a-vis the planned adoption of dual-citizenship legislation indicate that someone has made plans to change the political situation in central Europe, and is plotting a conflict, co-ruling LS-HZDS leader Vladimir Meciar said on Monday.
"We want a fixed peace. The clash that can be seen is between nationalism on the Hungarian side and the democratic nature of adopting things on the Slovak side. This is a clash of two systems," Meciar told journalists following the Coalition Council in Bratislava.
According to the three-times premier, the current Hungarian political elite is attempting to recreate the 'Great Hungary', and is planning to do so in three steps.
"The first is to create a group of people whose citizenship status would come under the jurisdiction of the Hungarian state. The second step would feature initiatives leading to securing international, diplomatic and political protection, as well as financial support for the activities of these people. And, finally, the third step would include providing help to them - it's always been so, and it's likely that it would be so in this case too," said Meciar, describing the moves as similar to those in the beginnings of Fascism in Europe in the 1930s, and that's why such intentions have to be prevented from taking place.
Meciar also said he was confident that the hysteria surrounding this legal norm is harmful to Hungarians themselves first and foremost. "In Slovakia we can't let it happen that something like this bill befalls our citizens of Hungarian ethnicity who want to remain citizens of Slovakia," he stressed.
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