Nation-Building and Contested Identities - MEK

ZOLTÁN KÁNTOR27 The debate on this issue was published in Magyar Kisebbség 1 (1999), and 2-3(1999).28 For details, see the Government Program: For a Civic Hungary on the Eve ofa New Millenium from 1998. Available fromfrom http://www.htmh.hu/govprog.htm;Internet; accessed 15 August 2001.29 Information on the “Law on Hungarians Living in Neighboring Countries”(Act T/4070).30 Information on the “Law on Hungarians Living in Neighboring Countries”(Act T/4070).31 Information on the “Law on Hungarians Living in Neighboring Countries”(Act T/4070).32 See Ferenc Dobos and István Apró, “Integrációs esélyek és remények:Reprezentatív mintákon regisztrált határon túli és anyaországi véleményeka tervezett státustörvény néhány elemérõl” (Chances and Hopes of Integration:Opinions of Hungarians in Hungary and Hungarians from Abroad onCertain Elements of the Status Law), Pro Minoritate (Fall-Winter 2000), pp. 19-43, and “A magyar közvélemény a státustörvénytervezetrõl” (The HungarianPublic Opinion and the Project of the Status Law), Pro Minoritate (Spring2001), pp. 100-106.33 RFE/RL NEWSLINE vol. 5, no. 104, part II, 1 June 2001.34 Information on the “Law on Hungarians Living in Neighboring Countries”(Act T/4070).35 See Annex 2 to the Final Statement of the Session of the Hungarian StandingConference of 13-14 December 2000 concerning the definition of the subjectsof the “Law on Hungarians Living in Neighboring Countries,” 14 December2000.36 The nationalizing politics of the national minority is implemented by the ethnicparty that has a dual role, that is, it functions as a political party and alsoas a social organization. The ethnic party and the ethno-civil society is led andinfluenced by the minority political elite and by the intellectuals who set thegoals of a particular national minority, and act as its representatives.272