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‘It is up to Romania to participate in regional cooperation’, says Hungarian parliament delegation
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Romania should decide whether or not it wants to be involved in central European cooperation, which is taking good shape, the head of the Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs committee said in Cluj /Kolozsvár, in western Romania, on Saturday.
Hungary has been committed to building such cooperation for several years and wants to include Romania in it, too, Zsolt Németh told a roundtable with leaders of ethnic Hungarian parties.
If Romania wants to become part of such cooperation, it should not reject cooperating with Hungary and the Hungarians, he said, adding that Romania’s reluctance must be connected with the rights of its ethnic Hungarian community.
“The ice in Hungarian-Romanian ties has been broken and started to melt after the freeze in 2012,” he said.
Németh said that preparations for the new EU budgetary period, the EU’s upcoming Romanian presidency in the first half of 2019 and linking Hungary’s and Romania’s energy networks would offer great opportunities for building cooperation.
Németh was asked about recent remarks made by the Romanian prime minister concerning Hungarian autonomy efforts.
As we wrote before, Mihai TUDOSE, Romania’s Prime Minister threatened to hang those Hungarians from Transylvania, who hoist the Szekler flag, the unofficial regional symbol of three Romanian counties.