The State Secretary for national policy said that looking back over the 100 years since the Treaty of Trianon, the Hungarian people are "alive and well despite all odds, the greatest nation in the Carpathian Basin."Continue reading
In Hungary, 103 years after the Treaty of Trianon (after which only 33 percent of historic Hungary remained under Hungarian sovereignty), the idea of national belonging is still strong, and Hungarians believe that the nation does not end at our borders, but extends beyond them, according to the latest research by the Kopp Mária Institute for Population and Families.
In the representative survey conducted in May by telephone among 1,000 people, three-quarters (76 percent) of participants believed that all Hungarians belong together, wherever they live in the world, and 85 percent said that every Hungarian child is a treasure, wherever they are born. 83 percent of respondents said that
a common mother tongue and culture unites all Hungarians.
Support for Hungarians living beyond the country’s borders is important to the majority, with only a fifth of respondents saying it is not.
Six out of ten respondents believe that Hungarians living beyond the borders of the Carpathian Basin should be helped to stay in their home country and should be supported more than Hungarians living in other parts of the world. One in two people believe that supporting Hungarians living abroad and beyond the borders is in our common national interest, and they also agree that
assistance should be provided to help emigrated Hungarians return home,
the survey shows.
According to the survey, four out of ten Hungarians have Hungarian friends living in the Carpathian Basin, while six out of ten have Hungarian friends living in other countries. As for the latter, 62% of respondents would be happy if their Hungarian acquaintances moved back to Hungary, and one in two think they should be supported in this.
So far, more than 48,000 Hungarian families abroad have already made use of these benefits.
Via MTI, Featured photo via Facebook/Csángó Bál