📉 The decline of Viktor Orbán’s political system opens space to reassess Fidesz's foreign policy—and its impact on Hungarian minority communities. In a recent interview, I argue that impact has been, at best, questionable, often outright negative.
https://t.co/9H2LDWlbnY
✍️ My new article is out, summarising more than a decade of litigation, data work, advocacy, and the mobilisation of 1.2 million supporters in the framework of the European Citizens’ Initiative on @NationalRegions: https://t.co/lTvKsRnqrZ
⬛️⬜️On Friday, @assemblea_int received international guests from the #Diada2025. It was a great occasion to network and share our respective struggles, tools, strategies and experiences.
We wish to thank the @ANC_SFxI for letting us use their headquarters, and for joining in!
@EeuweM@EU_Commission "A threat to everything they plan." In the EP debate of our ECI, questions arose on the 2028–34 MFF plans: merging cohesion funds with CAP. Yet all MEPs we spoke to opposed it, and no one knew where the idea came from. Transparency clearly isn’t the Commission’s strong suit.
📢 The @EU_Commission rejected the #ECI on #NationalRegions, calling legislation “unjustified.”
❗️This ignores 1.25M signatures.
🚫 Politicised. Uninspired. Emptying the ECI of substance.
💪 We need new tools to fight for recognition.
🔗 Full text: https://t.co/dDXXn4J1EJ
@EeuweM@EU_Commission Well, I must admit that having read the Commission’s response, I find it particularly challenging not become a staunch eurosceptic myself.
@EUinNL The EUCommision was bleaker claiming that the cohesion policy in place already prevents discrimination. Depopulating Transylvanian villages stands as proof of unresolved problems of #NationalRegions that the Commission could have addressed but chose not to, for political reasons
@EU_Commission "EU policies can be shaped by you." As organiser of the 11th successful ECI, this was not our experience. On 09.03 the @EU_Commission refused legislation for us. Gathered 1.25M signatures for #NationalRegions like Catalonia or Szeklerland, yet they called our goals “unjustified.”
Successful public hearing of the #NationalRegions ECI at the @Europarl_EN, showcasing cross-party support.🇪🇺 The @EU_Commission must act! It has a legal duty under the Treaties to safeguard cultural diversity, and a political duty under the @UN#SDGs to ensure its sustainability.
📌This Wed 25/6, MEPs will discuss the EU Citizen's Initative #ECI "Cohesion policy for the equality of regions & sustainability of regional cultures" in a hearing with:
- Balázs-Árpád Izsák & @AttilaDabis, organisers
- @EUinmyRegion, @EU_EESC and more
🔗https://t.co/p6g7aeYCPy
📌This Wed 25/6, MEPs will discuss the EU Citizen's Initative #ECI "Cohesion policy for the equality of regions & sustainability of regional cultures" in a hearing with:
- Balázs-Árpád Izsák & @AttilaDabis, organisers
- @EUinmyRegion, @EU_EESC and more
🔗https://t.co/p6g7aeYCPy
📢 As organisers of the #ECI for #NationalRegions, we had talks with the @EU_Commission, including Exec. VP @RaffaeleFitto, responsible for Cohesion and Reforms, on how the #CohesionPolicy of the #EU can be transformed to protect the identity of national regions across the EU 🇪🇺
En el tracte al poble szekler x Romania hem pogut veure el mateix tracte de menyspreu institucional, xenofòbia, discriminació lingüística, espoli fiscal i persecució que a Catalunya. Aquí amb l'ex VP del Parlament Europeu László Tórkes @assemblea@AttilaDabis
⬛️⬜️@assemblea's board member @tonistrubellt attended the act for the Day of the Szekler People -the Hungarian minority in Romania- in Marosvàsàrhely to support the defence of national rights and Szekler autonomy in the face of Bucharest's constant refusal to respect them.
⬛️⬜️Catalonia and Szeklerland share a struggle for national recognition and the protection of our age-old languages and cultures. Together, we will continue fighting for our rights in a EU where state's interests increasingly predominate at the expense of real democracy.
"La meva bella pàtria, la llengua hongaresa, que em quedi almenys això fins al darrer moment".
El 22 de febrer de 1989 va morir a San Diego l'escriptor Sándor Márai.
"Az emberi jogokkal kapcsolatban olyan veszélyek merülnek fel, mint az etnikai profilalkotás, a gyűlöletbeszéd könnyű előállítása vagy az autonóm fegyverrendszerek fejlesztése.
Emellett a deepfake videókat és álhíreket a választások befolyásolására is használhatják."