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Raising the specter of ethnic loyalties in the region could backfire, Tamas Gaspar Miklos predicted in Elet es Irodalom (Jan. 11): “In the offices in the West watching us, the consensus was quickly arrived at... [that] Hungary is a powder keg of regional instability.”
At least one of Hungary’s neighbors has apparently decided to strike back. On Feb. 7, the Slovak Parliament passed a resolution opposing implemention of the law on Slovak territory.
The reaction of Hungary’s press to the law has been generally negative. Regarding negotiations with Romania, Imre Bednarik wrote: “Only two people were happy” about the law—“Corneliu Vadim Tudor [leader of the Greater Romanian Party] and [Hungarian Prime Minister] Viktor Orban, and we know the former to be anti-Hungarian” (Népszabadság, Jan. 5).
Passed just before an election year, the legislation has produced charges that candidates are inciting nationalism for political gain. “[P]arty affiliation is the basic criterion for opinion on the Status Law,” opined Peter Erdelyi in Magyar Hirlap (Feb. 11). A recent poll found that 78 percent of the ruling Fidesz Party supports the law, compared with 53 percent of the opposition Socialist MSZP. Many in Hungary see the debate itself as dangerous and provocative. Népszava’s Jozsef Szilvassy wrote (Feb. 12) that the Status Law is “politically exceedingly dangerous because the evil spirit of collective guilt and national autonomy, which has caused so many tragedies, is seeking resurrection.”
Hungary: Painful Realities
David Koch, World Press Review correspondent
Hungary's Prime Minister Exposed as Former Communist Spy
David Koch, World Press Review correspondent, July 25, 2002
The Center Holds
David A. Koch, World Press Review Hungary correspondent, May 6, 2002
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