“That cursed June 4, 1920 in Trianon”, Victor Orban must be thinking! The Hungarian nation was deprived of almost two-thirds of its territory because it had fought and lost the First World War alongside Austria. And twenty years later another wrong alliance with Nazi Germany in order to recover. Instead the country ended for forty years behind the Iron Curtain under the claws of Moscow. In short, this twentieth century has been a disaster.
Now, about a third of Hungarians live outside the country’s borders and no one wants to account for this injustice to the Hungarian people. On the contrary, the European Union also has the courage to challenge what is written in the Hungarian Constitution: namely that it is the country of the Hungarian nation, considering the statement discriminatory for minorities. But it is known that the countries of Western Europe have considered the peoples of the East as series B races and their lands as battlefields. Moreover, at the end of the wars, they used to mark with chalk new boundaries, as if the inhabitants were herds of sheep to be moved according to their interests or to be carved up according to the presence of natural resources, etc.
Ukraine and Romania are home to millions of Hungarians, but relations between ethnic groups are often sour. In Bucharest, a draft law that provided for administrative autonomy for Hungarians in Transylvania has been rejected by the parliament. Orban has obstructed the procedures for Ukraine‘s accession to NATO. Additionally, he has made wave the flag of the Szeklers (Hungarians living in neighboring countries) on the Parliament building in Budapest, instead of the European Union flag. Furthermore, thanks to a law he wanted in 2010, one million Hungarians abroad were granted Hungarian citizenship, and minorities outside the borders receive regular funding from Budapest. On his Facebook page Orban posted Hungary‘s political map before 1920, creating great embarrassment in neighboring countries. No territorial claims, but an exhortation of strong emotional impact in order to defend the Hungarian identity. The European Union must address the problem of minorities.
