Budapest's move

Following the crisis meeting between Robert Fico and Ferenc Gyurscány, the prime ministers of Slovakia and Hungary, the Slovakian government has approved a number of measures aimed at improving relations with its neighbour. Among other things Hungarian place names will be given in school textbooks for the Hungarian minority once more. The left-wing daily Pravda praises this initiative and writes: "Fico has followed up on almost all his promises to his Hungarian colleague pretty quickly. Now it's up to the Hungarian minority, and above all Budapest. The fact is that for some time now the problem [with Slovak-Hungarian relations] has not been what Fico does but what Gyurscany fails to do."

» more information (external link, Slovak)
More from the press review on the subject » EU enlargement, » Domestic Policy, » Hungary, » Slovakia
All available articles from » Dag Daniš

» To the complete press review of Friday, November 21, 2008