ethnic

10/10/2015

HR minister promises minority education projects in southern Hungary

Budapest, October 10 (MTI) – Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog on Saturday outlined details of development projects pertaining to the education of minority groups to be […]
01/10/2015

Hungary’s Roma clash over graft, leadership

Budapest, October 1 (MTI) – Hungary’s Roma are “on the verge of tearing themselves apart,” a senior Roma official said on Thursday after an extraordinary meeting […]
30/09/2015

Hungary welcomes Covasna court overturning national anthem fine

Budapest (MTI) – The Hungarian government has welcomed a second-instance decision by the Covasna (Kovaszna) County Court in Romania to annul a fine against the Hungarian […]
24/09/2015

State audit office finds irregularities at five national minority self-governments

Budapest, September 24 (MTI) – The State Audit Office (ASZ) found irregularities in the finances of five out of the 13 national minority self-governments it screened […]
09/09/2015

Szijjártó meets new Transcarpathian governor

Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó met Hennadiy Moskal, recently appointed governor of the Transcarpathia (Kárpátalja) region in western Ukraine, in Budapest on […]
15/08/2015

Justice minister calls for unity among ethnic Hungarians south of border

Palic, Serbia, August 15 (MTI) – Justice Minister Laszlo Trocsanyi called for unity within the Hungarian diaspora south of the border at an early Saint Stephen’s […]
03/08/2015

Roma Holocaust Center commemorates 71st anniversary of Roma Holocaust 

Budapest, August 2 (MTI) – The Roma History, Culture, Education and Holocaust Centre commemorated the 71st anniversary of the Roma Holocaust at an event organised on […]
22/07/2015

Bálványos Summer University opens in Szeklerland

Baile Tusnad, Romania, July 22 (MTI) – The 26th annual Bálványos Summer University opened in Baile Tusnad (Tusnádfürdő), in Szeklerland, central Romania, on Wednesday. The ideas […]
22/07/2015

Hungary promises protection to Hungarian citizens in Ukraine

Budapest (MTI) – The Hungarian government must protect every Hungarian citizen by all means, and in view of the recent street shootings in western Ukraine, the safety […]
20/07/2015

Hungary Roma community needs “new self-image”, says Human Resources Minister

Budapest, July 20 (MTI) – The Roma community needs a “new self-image”, one that incorporates both the Roma and Hungarian identity, Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog […]
13/07/2015

International Roma youth meeting starts in European Youth Capital Cluj

Budapest (MTI) – An international Roma youth meeting started on Sunday in framework of the European Youth Forum in Cluj-Napoca, in north-western Romania, the European Youth […]
30/06/2015

70th anniversary of the annexation of Subcarpathia to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

On 29 June 1945, the Soviet-Czechoslovak Treaty was signed in Moscow, which meant the annexation of Subcarpathia (Zakarpattia Oblast) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, itthon.ma […]
29/06/2015

Abusive Romanian Facebook page has been deleted

The Pyro Sed-Est Facebook page, designed for propagating anti-Hungary ideology by means of selling defamatory T-shirts, has been deleted by Facebook for its abusive content, itthon.ma […]
26/06/2015

US State Department highlights human rights issues in Hungary

Washington (MTI) – The US Department of State mentioned actions against civil groups, curbing media pluralism and discrimination against the Roma minority among the gravest human […]
25/06/2015

Provocation in Romania – A huge Romanian flag to be flown in Szeklerland

Defence Minister Mircea Dusa announced that the biggest Romanian flag of Harghita County was going to be flown in Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc) on Friday on the […]
16/06/2015

Brussels critical of Miskolc council measures on accommodation to Roma

Brussels (MTI) – Measures by the Miskolc (NE Hungary) local council affecting local Roma residents’ accommodation are not in line with the European Union’s framework strategy […]
08/06/2015

Roma murders task force says perpetrators acted alone

Budapest, June 8 (MTI) – A task force of seven law enforcement agencies investigating the Roma murders of 2008-2009 have found that the four men sentenced […]
04/06/2015

Romanian authorities exaggerate over the aspirations of the Hungarian community

The ActiveWatch Media Monitoring Agency, a Bucharest based human rights organization that militates for free communication for public interest, speak about an overreaction of the Romanian […]
19/05/2015

Govt to support German theatre revamp in SW Hungary

Budapest, May 19 (MTI) – The Hungarian government will contribute 200 million forints (EUR 650,000) to the refurbishment of the German Theatre in Hungary, the human […]
19/05/2015

Official: Hungary supports notion that minorities should decide for themselves

Budapest, May 19 (MTI) – The situation of minorities is not the domestic affair of an individual state, Hungary’s state secretary in charge of policy for […]