Fidesz and KDNP MEPs commemorate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Trianon on the Day of National Unity

The Treaty of Trianon was signed 100 years ago. All of our compatriots fell victim to the anti-Hungarian and unjust Trianon decision, the millions who were stranded outside the border as well as those who remained in the motherland.

The Trianon Peace Treaty created the largest indigenous national minority in Europe, that of the Hungarian national communities of the Carpathian Basin beyond its borders.

The hundred years since Trianon have shown that borders may have changed and states may have transformed, but national identity and mother tongue endure. 

On this historic anniversary, Fidesz and KDNP MEPs commemorate the Day of National Unity.

It is an unquestionable historical fact that as a result of the post-World War I peace agreements, nearly 3.3 million Hungarians, together with their homeland, came under the rule of other states with a stroke of a pen. Trianon deprived Hungarians, who have lived in their European homeland for a thousand years, of their right to national self-determination.

It is sad and unacceptable that 100 years after Trianon, any more time should elapse with Hungarian communities across the border being subjected to harsh physical or political attacks by the majority society in their own countries. But although the centuries-old national persecution has not disappeared, it has, on the contrary, strengthened the cohesion of the Hungarian national community on both sides of the border. A great example of this is the finale of the European Citizens’ Initiative in support of national regions, when a mission that seemed almost impossible was recently completed: in over a week, hundreds of thousands of supporting signatures were collected from across the Carpathian Basin, crossing the required threshold of one million. Many hundreds of thousands of Hungarian hearts beat together again.

The members of the Hungarian nation, wherever they live in the world, belong together. In the last ten years, the Government of Hungary has proven its commitment to the protection of the traditions, mother tongue and culture of Hungarian national communities abroad. Many decades after the annexation of the territories, a national government was formed that made it clear it intended to achieve cross-border national reunification in a way that would strengthen good neighborly relations in parallel. An excellent example of this, and an important message for Europe, is the close cooperation between Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary. 

Fidesz and KDNP MEPs have been working closely with Hungarian political parties across the border in the European Parliament since the first moment of Hungary’s membership in the European Union. Thanks to this, with its 15 members, the Hungarian Delegation to the European People’s Party is the third strongest delegation of the political group. Despite all the difficulties, confusion and intrigue, common political representation is gaining more and more respect and recognition. The compilation of the European Parliament election list of Fidesz and KDNP also symbolizes national unification, as the national list of Fidesz and KDNP was born in 2014 thanks to a conscious national policy effort. Thus, the Hungarians of countries outside the European Union, the Hungarian national communities of Serbia, Vojvodina, and of Ukraine, Transcarpathia, also have an MEP. 

We, the members of the European Parliament of the national list of Fidesz and KDNP, consider the protection of indigenous national minorities and the representation of the interests of Hungarian national communities abroad to be one of our most important tasks. We are working to increase the cohesive power of Hungarians, as this is one of the most important components of our common, hopeful future in the 21st century as well. We, Hungarians, were treated unfairly in Trianon a hundred years ago; the time has come for Europe to realize that the prosperity of all Hungarians is a common European interest.