Dear Madam Member,

The future of national regions is our common cause. On 10 July, at the plenary session of the European Parliament, you clearly articulated what a broad range of supporters of this initiative have been demanding for years: the issues of communities living in national regions cannot be addressed with fine words and abstract debates alone – concrete action is needed.

Dear Mr. Buda,

In your speech of 10 July in Strasbourg, you expressed views regarding the principles of cohesion policy, the protection of minorities, and the citizens’ initiative concerning national regions. You addressed an important subject, as cohesion and the management of diversity are among the key issues for Europe’s future.

Dear Madam Member of the European Parliament,

I would like to express my sincere thanks for your intervention during the plenary session of the European Parliament held in Strasbourg on 10 July 2025.

Dear Commissioner,

We were pleased to note your personal participation in the debate on the European Citizens’ Initiative on July 10, and that you concluded the session on behalf of the Commission.

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.

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.