New government must clarify policy towards Hungarians

The liberal conservative politician Iveta Radičová who on Wednesday was officially charged with forming a government in Slovakia has presented the first points of a programme agreed on by the future conservative coalition. The liberal daily Sme criticizes the new coalition for being too vague about its policy towards the Hungarian minority. "Its vagueness is often at the level of similar statements by the Fico government [voted out of office]: preserving the identity of nationalities, the development of education and culture, improving relations with Hungary on the basis of bilateral agreements and membership of the EU and Nato and so on. The formulation stating that the maximum that can be achieved is to return to the state of affairs before the Fico government took office is particularly inadequate. ... This ought to be the minimum. ... No progress is visible towards solving the principal problems which have existed for a long time. That is both strange and sad, and not only because one of the coalition partners [the Most-Híd party, which is working towards a reconciliation between Slovaks and Hungarians] focused on nothing else in its election programme."

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