The Foreign Affairs and Diaspora committee of the Hungarian Parliament held an extraordinary meeting on the 3rd of December with the attendance of the Hungarian MEPs from Hungary and neighboring countries. The committee discussed the issues of the representation of the interest of the Hungarian living outside Hungary in the European Parliament.

DAHR’s MEP Csaba Sógor congratulated Hungarian journalist from Transylvania, Tímea Bakk-Dávid, editor of Transindex on behalf of his colleagues. The journalist submitted an article written in Hungarian for the European Commission’s The European Year Journalist Award 2010: Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.

This week’s plenary session of the European Parliament saw the debate on the joint motion for a resolution about the attempt of the Chinese authorities to suspend native language education in Tibet. The motion, proposed by MEP Thomas Mann (German, EPP) and signed by 48 other MEPs was discussed in the traditional human rights debate on Thursday afternoon. The motion comes after the Chinese government announced a new educational program that would introduce Cantonese Chinese as the sole official language of education.

The European Parliament’s Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages held an extraordinary meeting on the 24th of November 2010 with the attendance of European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou.

Euro-Toques International, the Association of the European Chefs invited the Agricultural Committee of the European Parliament and the MEPs interested in healthy nutrition to an extraordinary meeting.

Most of Csaba Sógor’s amendment proposals were accepted.

The Organization of the Csángó-Hungarians of Moldva (MCMSZ) celebrates its twentieth anniversary on October 20 and next year will be ten years since the Council of Europe issued its recommendations about the Csango culture.

The European Parliament (EP) held its plenary sitting in Brussels on 6-7 October with the focus on the refinement of the economic, social and cohesion policies.

Csaba Sógor:  The Hungarian nation’s desire for freedom never had boundaries.