Slovakia a model for Hungary

Hungary's parliament will vote today on its new constitution, which much of Europe frowns upon as nationalist. Slovakia can serve as a role model for Hungary, writes the conservative daily Lidové noviny: "The Slovaks also passed a nationalistic constitution when the country was established. And like its Slovakian precursor, the Hungarian constitution is certainly strange. But far more important than that is how it works in practice. ... Today Slovakia is a respectable, non-nationalist, liberal state which could serve as a model for Hungary in many respects. Of course Budapest would have to come a long way before it could admit that Slovakia could be a role model. And this would have to take it in the very opposite direction to that now being taken with Viktor Orbán's new constitution."

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