The organizers of the Minority SafePack appealed to the EU Court

The initiating committee filed a lawsuit after the European Court of Justice announced on January 15, 2021 that it would not initiate legislation regarding the nine points of the European minority protection initiative, Magyar Nemzet wrote.

"We thoroughly examined the committee's response and, together with our legal representatives, we came to the conclusion that there are serious deficiencies in its statement. In addition to turning its back on the more than one million signatories, Europe's fifty million minority citizens and the three-quarters majority of the European Parliament with its decision, it also failed to fulfill its legal obligation.

In the detailed documentation submitted to the EU tribunal, we highlight the legal and procedural shortcomings, and we will continue our work - declared Loránt Vincze , Member of the European Parliament of the RMDSZ and the Minority Protection Initiative the president of FUEN, which coordinates its European signature collection.

According to the lawsuit, the committee did not sufficiently justify its negative response to several points of the MSPI - in the case of seven of the nine proposals, it did not meet the requirements of the obligation to provide reasons - which is considered a procedural error. According to their reasoning, the committee did not take into account and failed to respond to the oral comments and explanations of MSPI representatives.

According to the EU organization's decision, the organizers obtained a total of 1.1 million statements of support across Europe by collecting signatures aimed at the protection of national and linguistic minorities, and the overwhelming majority of European Parliament members voted in favor of strengthening cultural and linguistic diversity in vain. In addition, the national parliaments also stood behind the minority protection initiative, regardless of the political majority that characterizes them. In addition to the Hungarian Parliament and the German Bundestag, for example, the Dutch lower house, the Tweede Kamer, also supported the case.