Katalin Szili writes in her introduction, "The focus of our book entitled Out of Thirty is Hungarian national policy and the protection of our Hungarian national communities...". It would not be possible to indicate more precisely and concisely the content of the work, worthy of its appearance, which was presented with great interest from the press at the Institute for National Policy Research, moderated by director Zoltán Kántor.
Source: MTI
János Árpád Potápi, the State Secretary responsible for national policy at the Prime Minister's Office, called the book launch an opportunity to give an account of the national policy efforts of the past 10-11 years. For 101 years, the borders of the nation and the country have not coincided, and since then Hungarian governments cannot ignore the representation of the interests of the one-third of Hungarians who have been outside the borders. The framework of today's national politics was formed at the time of the regime change, and since then there have been ups and downs.
The state secretary pointed out that when the Hungarian Permanent Conference could not function, Katalin Szili established the Carpathian Basin Representatives' Forum as speaker to fill the gap. Along with MÁÉRT and the Diaspora Council, this is still an important institution of national politics, which has become a priority area of government policy since the complete paradigm shift that occurred in 2010. Between 2010 and 2015, ensuring the preservation of identity, and from 2015 the program of remaining in the homeland is at the center of national policy, and the cooperation of János Árpád Potápi and the State Secretariat with Prime Minister-in-Charge Katalin Szili is ongoing.
Source: velvidek.ma/Judit Ccervenka
As the title suggests, the work reviews the national policy of the ten years after 2010 out of the 30 years that have passed since the change of regime, focusing on two important, interrelated areas: the autonomy aspirations of communities across the border, and issues of neighborhood policy and European minority protection.
Katalin Szili also aimed to clarify the content of frequently used terms such as subsidiarity, decentralization, and deconcentration. It describes the European models of autonomy. Of the 27 member states of the European Union, 6 provide territorial autonomy, and 7 provide ethnic self-government based on the personal principle. His study deals with the citizens' initiative of the National Regions, and in a separate chapter he presents the autonomy aspirations of the Hungarian community in Vojvodina. He dedicates a chapter to the Highlands, more specifically: the catch-up of the regions inhabited by Hungarians. From the idea of self-determination that first appeared in 1990, it follows the main milestones, such as the amendments to the Language Act adopted by the Slovak Parliament in 2009, the self-management concept of the MKP in 2014 and the failure of the 2020 Slovak and European Parliament elections. He draws a lesson from the latter: the fragmentation of political organizations must be eliminated and efforts must be made to create strong ethnic representation.
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