For almost three years, the European Commission has not been able to enforce its own decision, and thus in Slovakia the possibility of legal redress is still not provided to those who have taken up Hungarian citizenship - this is what Zoltán Lomnici Sr., president of the Human Dignity Council, told the Hungarian Nation...
...In 2010, the Slovak legislature adopted a law according to which a person who acquires another nationality automatically loses his Slovak citizenship. The law did not provide legal remedies to those concerned. Zoltán Lomnici Sr. reminded him that the competent committee of the European Parliament notified him on July 11, 2019, after several years of legal struggle, that the procedure he had initiated had led to a result. Pursuant to this, the European Commission called on Slovakia to determine how it intends to amend legislation that is contrary to EU law.
the right to a legal remedy must be ensured in the case of the deprivation of the right to citizenship by operation of law,
Since then, Zoltán Lomnici Sr. has appealed to the President of the European Commission and the officials of the European Parliament several times, but no progress has been made.
- It is clear that our neighbor to the north ignores the EU decision, and the European Commission is unable to enforce the law - stated Zoltán Lomnici senior...
...Recently, the Slovak parliament relaxed the citizenship law, which was amended in 2010, but it is still not possible to acquire the citizenship of another country without restrictions, including the Hungarian one...
Source: Magyar Nemzet/Attila Borsodi
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