Hungary MEPs urge stronger EC support for protection of national minorities
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The European Commission should take specific steps to support the continent’s ethnic minority groups, Hungary’s MEPs said in a European Parliamentary debate on Minority SafePack, an initiative urging EU protection for indigenous national minorities in the bloc, on Monday.
Kinga Gál, an MEP for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, said in a statement that it was time to guarantee the protection of minority rights at European level.
The initiative gives the bloc’s national minority groups the chance to express their need for protection in unison, she said.
Gál said she had turned to the European Commission on numerous occasions when the continent’s indigenous minorities faced some form of discrimination either in education, the use of their mother tongue or when they were the targets of hate speech.
But while the commission has declared 15 times in writing in recent years that cases of discrimination against minorities fall under national competences on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity, “it does not bother with observing this principle in other matters,”
she said.
Gál said it was time for the EC to “put aside the use of double standards” and stand up for the protection of Europe’s indigenous national minorities. “After numerous empty replies, I want to see the commission put specific proposals on the table,” the MEP said.
How can one determine who is a member of an ethnic minority? Only DNA tests can do that for sure. If this is a back door route to trying to drum up support for the so called ethnic Hungarians in places like Romania or the Ukraine, I doubt that their DNA will prove anything other thsn they are a mish mash of races.