On December 6, 2024, Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) annulled the first-round presidential election results of November 24 due to allegations of Russian interference. The court ordered a new election. The annulment has caused strong political reactions, legal investigations, and global attention.… Tovább olvasom

Join us for a deep dive with investigative reporter Gábor Czímer in Slovakia on how authorities are doubling down on certain discriminatory WWII-era Beneš Decrees to seize lands from those of ethnic Hungarian and German ancestry. Despite recently losing in court twice, the Slovak Land Fund persists in unjust attempts to seize valuable properties without compensation.… Tovább olvasom

Join us for a webinar as two experts from the Transcarpathia region of Ukraine discuss timely and complex questions:
What is the current legal status of national minorities in Ukraine?
How does the minorities’ situation align with Ukraine’s ambitions for EU accession, which requires meeting specific human and minority rights criteria?
What are Ukraine’s international commitments in these areas, and how does Ukrainian legislation measure up (e.g. in the areas of language use, culture, and education)?
What is the political and diplomatic context of current Hungarian-Ukrainian bilateral relations?… Tovább olvasom

On July 4, Romanian government coalition parties reached an agreement to hold national elections over three consecutive weekends at the end of this year. / Hungarian Minority Conditions Included in Framework Document on EU Negotiations with Ukraine. / The Slovak State is determined to continue taking valuable land – located beneath the Bratislava/Pozsony D4/R7 highway ring road – from private citizens by using confiscation orders issued in the 1940s under the Beneš Decrees.
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ROMANIA: Soaring at 6.5 percent in the European Parliament elections on June 9, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) garnered well above the necessary 5 percent threshold with over 579,000 votes to date. Gyula Winkler and Loránt Vincze will continue to represent the interests of the 1.2 million-strong Hungarian community for the next five years in Brussels.

SLOVAKIA: Another European Parliament legislative cycle will pass without an ethnic Hungarian party having representation in Brussels. Coming in at 3.9 percent of the vote, Alliance, the umbrella party of ethnic Hungarians – Slovakia’s largest national minority- garnered only 57,350 votes.… Tovább olvasom

The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) will have 915 polling stations open abroad for the upcoming European Parliament and local elections on June 9.
Every vote counts!… Tovább olvasom

February 5, 2024 MAGYARUL ALÁBB OLVASHATÓ   Top News on Hungarian Minorities in January 2024   SLOVAKIA New Government Commissioner for Minorities in Slovakia Tackles Challenges and Opposes Fund Merger At its December 20, 2023 meeting, the Slovak government appointed … Tovább olvasom

The Hungarian Human Rights Foundation (HHRF) – and the Hungarian minority communities we serve – met this year’s challenges with ingenuity and determination. 

As we marked 47 years of service in 2023, the fate of the Hungarian communities in Ukraine, Romania, and Slovakia dominated the news and our focus of activities.
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Leaders representing the largest national minority in Romania, the 1.2 million-strong ethnic Hungarian community, visited Washington D.C. from November 27 to December 2 at the invitation of the New York-based Hungarian Human Rights Foundation.… Tovább olvasom