Hungarian Roma refugees from Ukraine do not receive allowances in the Czech Republic!
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The Czech Minister of the Interior, Vít Rakusan, highlighted that Roma people who speak Hungarian and are fleeing Ukraine should not expect help, aid, or allowances from the country if they show their Hungarian passports. He added that these people would get neither social allowances nor temporary protection or aid. Only Ukrainian citizens are entitled to these, he concluded.
Hungarian Roma in trouble in the Czech Republic
According to index.hu, Czech authorities faced the problem of double citizenship in connection with the Hungarian-speaking Roma community fleeing Transcarpathia, Ukraine. They have a Hungarian passport and only speak Hungarian. Thus, Czech authorities cannot communicate with them. Therefore,
Mr Rakusan believes Hungary should help them.
He stated that 1,200 Roma refugees have arrived in the Czech Republic since Russia invaded Ukraine. Among them, there are a couple hundred Hungarian Roma people.
‘Ethnic Hungarians’, Roma or not, are subject to the same rules as other citizens of EU countries in The Czech Republic. The Hungarian government cannot have its cake and eat it – if people who were/are living Ukraine are Hungarian by virtue of documentation, then their welfare if they leave is not party to the refugee status afforded to others (Ukrainian passport holders) with regards to social benefits in another EU country.