ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mónika Ganczer

Mónika Ganczer is a junior research fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and an assistant professor at the Deák Ferenc Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary.

POSTS BY Mónika Ganczer

08 October 2014

Mónika Ganczer

Hungarians outside Hungary – the twisted story of dual citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

In 2010, Hungary amended its Citizenship Act to pave the way for a preferential naturalisation of Hungarians living abroad. This was met with great alarm among Hungary’s neighbours: As a consequence of the Trianon Peace Treaty in the aftermath of World War I, by which Hungary lost large swaths of its territory, a considerable part of the citizenship of Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine and other states nowadays consists of ethnic Hungarians. Four years after, tensions between Hungary and its neighbours with respect to dual citizenship are still palpable, since the number of new Hungarian citizens increases continually and already exceeds half million. Continue reading >>