RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 10 September 1999

HUNGARIAN PREMIER SLAMS EU. In a 10 September interview with
the German daily "Der Tagesspiegel," Prime Minister Viktor
Orban says the EU has been telling the former communist
countries in east-central Europe "just five more years [to
admission] ever since 1990," MTI reported. He says Hungary's
admission to NATO is due mainly to the U.S. and it is time
that the EU "puts an end to shifting us between NATO and the
EU." Orban says the EU has been treating Hungary "correctly"
as "a negotiating partner" but "that does not mean it is
treating us as a partner with equal rights." He says the
decision to admit Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic
"could have been made years ago." MS

HUNGARIANS CALL OFF AUSCHWITZ EXHIBITION. Following the
protests of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary
(MAZSIHISZ) against the distorted reflection of anti-Semitism
in the country's history in a planned Auschwitz exhibition,
the government has decided to cancel the exhibition, Reuters
reported on 9 September. MAZSIHISZ official Gusztav Zoltai
said the same day on Hungarian television that the country's
Jewish communities do not want to see the project halted, but
"to see it done right" (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 9 September
1999). MS

HUNGARY TO FINANCE UNIVERSITY IN ROMANIA. Tibor Szabo,
chairman of the Office for Hungarians Beyond Borders, said in
Cluj on 10 September that Hungary will contribute 2 billion
forint ($8.3 million) for the financing of a Hungarian-
language private university in Romania, Mediafax reported.
Szabo said that it has not yet been decided in what
Transylvanian locality the university is to be set up,
adding, however, that Cluj is "an important recipient of
allocations" offered by the Hungarian government. MS

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