PM Orbán: Slovakia is “breakaway part” of Hungary, Bratislava outraged
Hungary’s ambassador to Slovakia was summoned to the Slovak foreign ministry on Monday over a remark made by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concerning the Hungarian community in Slovakia and “breakaway parts of the country” at last week’s Baile Tusnad Summer University in central Romania, the ministry said.
“Czechoslovakia (and later Slovakia) and Hungary are equally successor states of Austria-Hungary. So nothing could have been separated from today’s Hungary,” the ministry told TASR news agency, adding that it considered the spreading of such narratives by anyone to be “pointlessly going against good neighbourly relations and stability in our region”.
The ministry said questioning the territorial integrity or sovereignty of Slovakia in any “direct or indirect way is absolutely unacceptable”. “We therefore reiterate that our interest lies in normal and peaceful relations with Hungary, with respect for and consideration of mutual sensitive issues,” the statement said. “The recent remarks by the Hungarian prime minister do not go in this direction.”
Meanwhile, more and more Hungarians do their shopping in Slovakia. Read more HERE.
Ahhh. The Good Old Days! Some people just cannot help themselves. All the Peace talk, and then the “Fighting!” / “We Were Robbed!” words. Works for the voting public, I guess?
Orban has done an excellent job of pissing off the EU, the US and NATO. Now he is ruining relations with the V4. He needs to shut up.
Orban is a toxic leader suffering from the worst case of foot in mouth disease I have seen in years. He must be descending into a form of megalomania thinking he can do and say anything he wants. When I soon pay a visit to Bratislava I will have to totally disassociate myself from any connection to this man.
Just a point of interest, for those who actually read history. When Hungary was broken up 100 years ago, most of the regions that were taken were taken because they WANTED to be free of the horrible treatment they were given by Hungarians. The Romanian parts and the Ukrainian parts and the Czech parts wanted to be free of the bad treatment by the “real” Hungarians. This is a true fact, check it!
Although not a supporter of Orbán/Fidesz, he is right about Upper Hungary, now Slovakia. Trianon was a crime against the Hungarian people. Having said this, I don’t think the restoration of greater Hungary would be in the interest of us Hungarians. A revision of the borders along ethnic lines would be. As should have been the right decision in 1920.
Hungary joining the League of Hermit Nations soon.
Enjoy your Syrian and North Korean vacations.
I live in Poland and used to love visiting Hungary (been about a dozen times). I can’t stand the thought of visiting now.
Regarding Trianon: Not great but stop whining about it already! Look at South Korea smaller than North Korea (about the physical size of Hungary) and has become a world cultural superpower.
Hungary should concentrate on creating attractive culture rather than moaning about historic losses which just alienate everyone.
Orban has pissed off the US-EU and NATO – heaven forbid he upset those are responsible for hundreds of thousands dead that could have been avoided.
The US alone has sent 180,000 million dollars and billions in killing weapons. I have only lived in Eastern Europe 11 years and it been clear these people are responsible for everything. Russia has nukes but are not stupid- Texas has economy the size of Russia. EU is so brilliant the largest member couldn’t wait to get away from it and lost billions- unfortunately for you it happened by a vote of the people, but losers continue to destroy the country and have frozen farage out of the banking system- they have the tech to freeze accounts anyone who voted for brexit. Europe has twice the pop but the US 90% of europes defense paid by US taxpayers going back 70 years.
The Biden family has been takeing millions from Ukraine since Obama put him in charge of Ukraine over 15 years ago along with the little corrupt players still in charge of Ukraine. Just this month they have the bank accounts of all the bribes paid to 9 members of the Biden family- not even mentioned here. Trump knew about it and asked zelensky and they impeached him- that all it took. How dare Orban piss any of these clowns off. Even Romania was paying millions in bribes. The Biden regime just gave 25 million to left wing media in Hungary. The US is in big trouble with fools in charge and hear Little in the media here.