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Romania’s prime minister threatens Transylvanian Hungarian politicians with...
The Szekler flag (Székely zászló) has become a fairly prevalent symbol in areas of Tranylvania with Hungarian-speaking majorities, particularly in the counties of Hargita, Kovászna and Maros. But...
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Sándor Kányádi 1929-2018
Poet and translator Sándor Kányádi has died at age 90. Kányádi was born in 1929 in Nagygalambfalva (today Porumbeni), in rural Transylvania. He moved to Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) in 1950 where he...
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“Szeklers are not Hungarians” – Budapest disagrees
Recently the Hungarian Academy of Sciences issued the statement: The dominant historical, archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic standpoints consider the Szeklers to be an integral part of the...
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Multiculturalism and the execution of the Martyrs of Arad
On October 6 Hungary commemorates the anniversary of the execution of the Hungarian rebel generals after the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. In 1849 on this very day Julius Jacob von...
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Ex-Foreign Minister of Hungary suggests autonomy for Hungarians in Romania
Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, told Romanian President Klaus Iohannis that he considers the Romanian national holiday commemorating the unification with Transylvania to also...
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Hungarian American organization supports convicted violent neo-Nazis in Romania
Two Romanian citizens, Mr. István Beke and Mr. Zoltán Szőcs were arrested in November, 2015. They are ethnic Hungarians and local leaders of a group called Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement...
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Hungary’s Jesuits and Orbán’s attempt to exploit Pope Francis’s visit to Romania
Hungary’s Catholic leadership is firmly behind Orbán, in fact, church events often serve as political tools to spread Orbán’s nationalist message in the Carpathian basin. Pope Francis plans to visit...
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The National Catholic Reporter on the Papal visit to Csíksomlyó, Translyvania
The National Catholic Reporter’s Joshua J. McElwee wrote an exhaustive piece on the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Romania, emphasizing the trip’s significance from the perspective of outreach to...
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Meet Orbán’s enemy of the week: Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis
Carl Schmitt, the influential fascist German philosopher of the last century wrote that it is a waste of time to conduct politics through discussion, civilized debate and negotiation. That is a...
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Scores of ballots cast for Hungarian opposition parties found burned in...
Piles of mail-in ballots, some cast for the United for Hungary rainbow coalition, as well as for the far-right Mi Hazánk party, have been discovered in a garbage dump near the town of Marosvásárhely,...
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