Article tagged with"Slovakia"

  • Controversy over the Olivér Boldoghy case
    2011. 11. 23.

    Controversy over the Olivér Boldoghy case

    The Hungarian EPP Delegation has roundly condemned that Olivér Boldoghy has had his Slovak citizenship taken away against his will by the Slovak authorities. The decision is inconsistent with European values and principles. The Fidesz EP Delegation has said that it will stand up to protect civil rights by all possible means.
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  • ‘Schizophrenic situation’ in the EU over abuses of national minority rights - says József Berényi (MKP, Slovakia)
    2011. 09. 15.

    ‘Schizophrenic situation’ in the EU over abuses of national minority rights - says József Berényi (MKP, Slovakia)

    An incisive speech from József Berényi, President of the Hungarian Coalition Party (MKP –Slovakia), to the Intergroup (15/9) summed up many of the frustrations felt by national and linguistic minorities across Europe over the failure by States and the EU to implement benchmark protection standards such as the Copenhagen criteria and Council of Europe treaties.
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  •  We still need to stand up for our human and fundamental rights
    2009. 11. 12.

    We still need to stand up for our human and fundamental rights

    Kinga Gál, MEP expressed in her one-minute speech in the plenary session: "Two decades have passed since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the divide of the Iron Curtain, and the first opening of gaps in the barbed-wire fence that split Europe."
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