BUDAPEST, Hungary – The United States violated Hungarian sovereignty last month by using the country's airspace for unauthorized purposes, the defense minister said Saturday. The incident occurred on Feb. 20 when six helicopters and a tanker aircraft belonging to the U.S. Armed Forces flew over Hungary on their way to a military base in Romania, Defense Minister Ferenc Juhasz said at an extraordinary meeting of parliament's defense committee. Hungary had
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Is Vojvodina the Next Kosovo?
By Géza Jeszenszky Géza The Washington Post, Outlook Sunday, June 6, 1999; Page B03 Securing the peace is often as difficult as waging the war. While there are encouraging signs that NATO has won its campaign to stop the brutal mistreatment of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a lasting peace cannot come to the Balkans unless all interested parties take steps to prevent new ethnic conflicts from erupting. Kosovo is
Prodi urges Hungarians to think about their contributions to the European Union
BUDAPEST, Hungary – A top EU official told Hungarians on Thursday to think not only about what they have to gain from union membership, but also about what they can give. European Commission (news – web sites) President Romano Prodi also urged people here to vote "igen" the Hungarian word for "yes" when they go to the polls on April 12. Prodi told a group of Hungarian mayors that they
Bukarestben a helyzet változatlan
Aláírták az RMDSZ és a Szociáldemokrata Párt újabb protokollumát. A dokumentumot február 25-én szétküldte az RMDSZ tájékoztató, s teljes egészében lehozta a február 26-i Romániai Magyar Szó. Nincs semmi meglepő sem a dokumentum aláírásának tényében, sem formájában, sem tartalmában. Folytatódik az a politika, amit 1996 óta folytat az RMDSZ. Fő a stabilitás, fő a partnerek "jóindulatának" megtartása, fő a dialógus. Hogy ennek mi az ára, mellékes. Az RMDSZ vezetői eleget
Csángó Fesztivál és konferencia Budapesten
Kiss Eszter Veronika A csángóság került a figyelem középpontjába a hétvégén. A Kisebbségekért – Pro Minoritate Alapítvány szervezésében szombaton hetedik alkalommal rendezték meg a Budapesti Csángó Fesztivált, amelynek fővédnökségét – ahogy eddig minden évben – idén is Orbán Viktor vállalta magára. A nagyszabású rendezvénynek hagyományosan a Petőfi Csarnok adott helyet, amely zsúfolásig megtelt a csángó kultúra iránt érdeklődőkkel. A színvonalas műsor és a hajnalig tartó táncház során moldvai és gyimesi
New Allies Are A Collection of Old Communist Leaders
Brian Mitchell, Washington editor of Investor's Business Daily, has just written this excellent piece the real composition of the leaders of "new Europe" and just how they arrived in their positions of power. -Daniel by Brian Mitchell Investor's Business Daily February 25, 2003 NATO may be out, thanks to France, Germany and Belgium. But, hey, there's still the Vilnius 10 – a loose league of ex-Communist NATO wannabes in Eastern
WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT ÁRPÁD’S INGRESS?
by Endre Kolozsvári Grandpierre Is the revision of Árpád's conquest necessary? The question of Árpád's "conquest" (henceforth "Conquest") is not as clear, as it appears to be. There are some very serious doubts concerning this theory, which already began in the Middle Ages. Márk Kálti's(1) Képes Krónika (Illuminated Chronicle) states the following: "So if some codexes contain the statement, that those seven captains came into Pannonia (meaning the seven heads
CSILLAG COMMISSIONED HIS FORMER COMPANY
2003. február 24. 11:11 MNO – MN István Csillag, Minister of Economy practically did the same as Elemér Kiss, resigned Chancellery Minister: he gave at least net HUF 29,5 million to the Research Institute of Finance of which he had been managing director. István Csillag, Minister of Economy and Transport practically did the same as Elemér Kiss, recently fallen Vice Premier, Head of the Prime Ministers Office and his business
Romany women tricked into sterilisation in Slovakia
Romany women tricked into sterilisation From Adam LeBor in Presov, eastern Slovakia THREE scrawled crosses on a hospital form ended Zita’s dream of a big family. Zita, 23, an illiterate Romany woman from a shanty town outside Presov, gave birth in early 1998 by Caesarean section to her second child, a daughter. Still groggy, she was presented with a piece of paper to sign by a nurse. “They gave me
A Transylvanian Tragedy
(Weisskirch/Szaszfeheregyhaza/Viscri) A double tragedy continues to unfold in Transylvania, the northwestern chunk of Romania that has been a haven for ethnic Germans for some eight centuries. First is the fast disappearance of an extraordinary cultural heritage, expressed partly by the medieval architecture that Germans (known as "Saxons", though in fact they came from far and wide across the German-speaking world) brought to Transylvania and preserved for centuries against staggering odds.

