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Hungary – Ukraine: Minority Issues and Civil Society Cooperation

Hungary – Ukraine: Minority Issues and Civil Society Cooperation. Zoltán HAJDÚ – Ilona PÁLNÉ KOVÁCS – Edit SOMLYÓDYNÉ PFEIL – Gábor LUX. Brussels, 07 May 2009 EUDIMENSIONS, Final Project Conference. Characteristics of Hungarian-Ukrainian Negigbourhood.

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Hungary – Ukraine: Minority Issues and Civil Society Cooperation

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  1. Hungary–Ukraine: Minority Issues and Civil Society Cooperation Zoltán HAJDÚ – Ilona PÁLNÉ KOVÁCS – Edit SOMLYÓDYNÉ PFEIL – Gábor LUX Brussels, 07 May 2009 EUDIMENSIONS, Final Project Conference

  2. Characteristics of Hungarian-Ukrainian Negigbourhood • Hungary-Ukraine: Old and new neighbours • Turning points in the interstate relationships: • 1991 • 2004 • 2007 • Good interstate connections • Good interregional cooperations • Hidden, presently open discussions about historical questions, and educational problems of Hungarian minority

  3. Sub-/Trans-Carpathia: A special multiethnical, multicultural, multireligious region • Sub-/Trans-Carpathia: A state-changing borderland • Territory:12,777sqm • Population:1.2 million • Ethnic composition of the region, 1989: • 78.4% Ukrainian • 12.5% Hungarian • 4% Russian • 2.4 Romanian • 1.0 Gypsy • „Others”? • Rusyn population?

  4. Sister-city connections City networks

  5. Hungarian settled area along the state borders

  6. Characteristics of regional and local CSOs in Hungary and in Ukraine • Dominant role of national level CSOs • „Filial” structure of regional CSOs • Independent regional CSOs • City focused local CSOs • Territorial, settlement-based vs ethnicity-based CSOs

  7. Characteristics of Hungarian CSOs in Sub-/Trans-Carpathia • Party system (KMKSZ, UMDSZ) – CSO orientation • Religions - CSOs • Cultural orientation of Hungarian CSOs • Professional CSOs

  8. Cross-border connections of Hungarian CSOs in Sub-/Trans-Carpathia • Local level connections – personal and community domination • County level – institutional and partly personal orientation • Regional level – institutional domination • Country level – institutional domination and public money orientation

  9. Pécs 2010, Cultural Capital of Europe

  10. Thank you for your attention!

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