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HUNGARY: ETHNIC HUNGARIAN LEADER INSISTS ON AUTONOMY AHEAD OF ROMANIA'S EU ACCESSION.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, January, 2004

Jozsef Csapo, chairman of the ethnic Hungarian Szekler National Council (SZNT in Hungarian, CNS in Romanian), announced in Budapest on 12 January that the SZNT considers the granting by Romania of autonomy to Szeklers to be a precondition of Romania's EU accession, "Magyar Nemzet" and "Nepszabadsag" reported. The SZNT was set up in October. Csapo met with Zsolt Nemeth, the FIDESZ chairman of the Hungarian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. Csapo later told journalists that although the SZNT has asked all Hungarian political parties to support its demands, only FIDESZ has done so. Nemeth said autonomy can guarantee the survival of ethnic Hungarians abroad, adding that he supports the idea of inviting Bishop Laszlo Toekes's recently established Transylvanian...

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