On Friday, Katalin Szili, former president of the Hungarian Parliament and Prime Minister's representative, was welcomed as a guest of the relaunched Meetings in Úri utca evening at the Petőfi MME in Nagybecskerek.

József Klemm, one of the dreamers of the series of meetings, said that they planned to bring people who have something to say to the Hungarians abroad, and primarily to the scattered Hungarians, such as the Hungarians in Nagybecskerek.

During the conversation with Katalin Szili, we were interested in what Hungarians living abroad can expect from the mother country, what the mother country is doing in bilateral relations, i.e. with regard to Hungarians living abroad and the mother country, but also what the mother country is doing to ensure that the European This issue should be kept on the agenda within the EU as well - stated József Klemm.

Katalin Szili accepted the invitation with pleasure, because she considers it very important that people in the mother country should know about the issues that concern the Hungarians of Nagybecskerek, which is about 120 kilometers from the border, what is their vision for the future, how do they imagine the survival of the Hungarian community in this region.

"On the one hand, it is very important to talk about how Europe imagines the future of indigenous national communities living in the minority today. From this point of view, an important issue for us is that Serbia becomes a full member of the European Union as soon as possible. And this would be good for us as well, since Serbia could set a good example by providing self-administration and self-determination to national communities in Vojvodina, which provide the community with broad cultural autonomy, and according to other typifications, we can even say that it provides an administrative autonomy to the community, since they can decide independently on educational, cultural, media and financing issues and on issues of institutions. The other important question for us is that all Hungarians matter, because wherever Hungarians live in the world today, whether in the diaspora, scattered or in blocks outside the borders, the future of Hungarians and the possibility of preserving their identity is very important."

Before the conversation, as a tune-up, theater artist Zoltán Molnár appeared before the audience with a poem collection entitled "I'd like to come back sometimes".

Source and full article: Vojvodina Ma

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