SUPPORTING TRANSYLVANIAN AUTONOMY

’The Hungarians in Romania miss a historic chance id they do not do their best to achieve the goal of autonomy before Romnia becomes a member of the European Union’, said Viktor Orbán at Tusnádfürdő (Románia) in a speech before several thousand people.

This was the last lecture of a week-long seminar on the enlargement of the European Union and its consequences. There were present among the audience Emil Constantinescu, former President of Romania and Bishop László Tőkés, head of the Transylvanian National Council, too.

Viktor Orbán said the present state of the democracy in Romania did not guarantee a quick accession to the EU. ’Where there are no honest elections, there is no democracy’, he said. According to the chairmn of Fidesz the autonomy is the real prrof of democracy which cannot be attained by pacts and compromises but by a massive support and determined representation.

Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó