Anti-Revisionismus und Anti-Magyarismus an der Donau - Über die schwierige Nachbarschaft von Ungarn und Slowaken
Anti-Revisionism and Anti-Magyarism on the Danube - About the Difficult Relations of Hungarians and Slovaks

Summary/Abstract: The bilateral relations between Hungary and Slovakia had registered a sudden deterioration just a year before new parliaments were elected in both countries in April and June 2010. A restrictive legislation regulating the use of the state language in Slovakia and a new Hungarian law offering citizenship to Magyar minorities in the neighbouring countries led to a hitherto unseen escalation in a controversy between the two member states of the European Union. Nationalists on both sides succeeded in reducing the complexity of a neighbourhood in the very heart of Europe to simple ethno-political patterns. – The new government in Slovakia which got parliamentarian support in August 2010 tries to mitigate the conflict. The article resumes the development of the recent crisis and describes its historical background.

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