The battle cry of the Hungarian minority

There is still no sign of an end to the extremist protests in front of the Slovak embassy in Budapest following police intervention at a Slovakia-Hungary championship football match. The Slovak police had arrested among others a number of Hungarian right-wing extremists who had travelled to the match from Hungary. The prime ministers of the two countries, Robert Fico and Ferenc Gyurscány, who both attended the Visegrad Group summit in Poland, have not been able to defuse the tensions. The left-liberal daily Pravda is not surprised: "The key to improving Slovak-Hungarian relations does not lie with Fico and Gyurscány but with the leaders of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. And at present it serves their interests to keep the fire of antagonism burning. Their recent claims that Slovak Hungarians must fear for their lives were not a cry for help, but rather a battle cry."

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