During the plenary debate of the European Parliament on the European Citizens' Initiative for the Protection of National Regions – similarly to the hearing held by the Committee on Regional Development – a cross-party and cross-ideological unity emerged among Members of the European Parliament in support of the initiative.

Dear Mr. Kohut,

I would like to thank you for addressing the plenary in your mother tongue during the session of the European Parliament held in Strasbourg on July 10. I could have also written “congratulations,” and that expression would have been entirely appropriate. However, “thank you” means even more, because with this gesture you not only sent a message to your own people but also to us, the Székelys. The meaning and significance of that message is that we are not alone.

The organizers of the European Citizens' Initiative for the protection of national regions will participate in a hearing before the Committee on Regional Development (REGI) of the European Parliament in Brussels on June 25 this year. The citizens’ initiative launched by the Szekler National Council is not an abstract legal proposal, but one that can be applied to concrete events and objectives. The concept of improving cohesion policy is fully applicable to the recent events that occurred in Parajd at the end of May and in June of this year.

- Considering that in the past decades no institution has protested against the modification of the boundaries of the Hungarian Autonomous Province and its subsequent abolition in disregard of the public will of Szeklerland, and the legitimately expressed position of the affected local community has not become known;

Letter to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the States of the Schengen Area

In the European Union, Romania's accession to the Schengen Area is on the agenda. As Romanian citizens, we pay close attention to the related events, and specifically to the opinions of Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden abstaining or rejecting the accession. Although the Hungarian national community in Romania is interested in the country's accession to the Schengen Area, at the same time we accept the reservations of these states with great understanding. We believe that all member states of the Schengen Area should be aware of the two-faced behavior that characterizes Romania's attitude towards international and community law in the last thirty years.

On March 10 of each year, we present the Gábor Áron Award for the previous year. This year's awards care tied to last year’s greatest international success, which rightly bore the motto of the Szekler National Council: For Szeklerland we mobilize Europe! At the proposal of the President of the Szekler National Council, it has been decided that the following individuals will receive the Award this year:

Yesterday, on 20 December 2021, the verification of the signatures of the European Citizens' Initiative for the Equality of the Regions and the Sustainability of Regional Cultures was completed. The organizers have been informed by the Hungarian Elections Committee that the Decision, according to which 826,826 of the 901,758 signatures are valid, with the certification included within, has come into force. Two days prior, reports on the number of valid signatures were received from Portugal and Cyprus as well, and with this, the table of signatures from all 27 EU Member States, which is part of this notice, is complete.

Esteemed Minister of Foreign Affairs,

Radu Cristescu, a Member of the Romanian Parliament from the governing party, made inadmissible statements in his speech that were contrary to Romania’s membership of the European Union and, in our view, go against Romania’s foreign policy.

In our address, „Latvia Has Fallen”, published on our community page on September 16 this year, we shared the bad news that the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Latvia validated only 5395 statements of support, leading to Latvia dropping out of the eleven states, where the number of statements of support for the citizens’ initiative for national regions exceeded the lower threshold. We also indicated that we had asked the competent Latvian authorities for further information, and were considering a way to pursue legal remedy. On September 21 2021, we received a detailed, precise and correct response from the Central Election Commission. Their response lists the different categories of invalidated statements of support, including 775 from supporters who reside in Latvia but do not have Latvian citizenship. Validating these statements, would have been sufficient for the threshold to be reached.

                        Latgale (Eastern Latvia)

Conversation with Izsák Balázs, President of the Szekler National Council