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Slovak Parliament Due to Deal With Statements of Hungarian MEP
Monday 08 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 8 (TASR) - The Slovak Parliament on Tuesday is due to deal with controversial statements made by Hungarian MEP Csanad Szegedi, who recently proposed in the European Parliament that Slovakia should be temporarily excluded from the European Union.
The debate was initiated by Slovak National Party (SNS) vice-chair Anna Belousovova and is supposed to result in a statement.
The 27-year-old Szegedi, who entered the European Parliament as a nominee of right-wing Hungarian party Jobbik, thinks that Slovakia should be expelled from the EU for a certain period because of its State Language Act, which Hungary and representatives of ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia think curtails language rights.
Belousovova also recalled Szegedi's statement in Strasbourg that he wants all ethnic-Hungarians living in Slovakia to gain full Hungarian citizenship and the right to elect members of the Hungarian Parliament. He also wants Hungarian to become a second state language in Slovakia and the cancellation of the post-war Benes Decrees. "There were other defamatory statements about Slovakia and Slovaks in the published interview (with Szegedi). For example, that it is time for us (Slovaks) to learn Hungarian and that Slovaks have never been a state-forming nation," she added.
Most of the 70 points listed on the programme of the last ordinary parliamentary session in the current electoral term have already been discussed. MPs will hold a vote on Smer-SD MPs Mojmir Mamojka's amendment to the Universities Act. The passing of this amendment to its second reading provoked strong criticism from SNS, which claimed that it is significant interference in its university reforms.
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