Péter Magyar’s stark warning to Robert Fico: this is essential for good Hungarian-Slovak relations

Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar, the leader of the election-winning Tisza Party, held talks by phone with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, the party said on Thursday.

The party said on Facebook that Tisza considers it possible to start political negotiations only if Slovakia repeals the law threatening ethnic Hungarians in southern Slovakia with prison, and provides guarantees that in the future there will be no confiscation of land belonging to them on the basis of the Benes decrees.

“The Tisza government will work to strengthen Hungarian-Slovak relations and rebuild the Visegrad Cooperation, but this can only be based on respect for the rights of the Hungarian community in Felvidek [southern Slovakia]”, they said.

Negotiations will continue in person at the next European Council meeting in Brussels, the statement said.

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