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Wonder what ethnic Hungarians think about it. As you know, it is very easy to aquire Hungarian passport these days, if your ancestors lived in territories of former Kingdom of Hungary and if you speak very little Hungarian.
I am aware current law was created to ease process of gaining Hungarian citizenship for millions of ethnic Hungarians who were left out of Hungary after Treaty of Trianon, but it is not only ethnic Hungarians who are using this opportunity.
As far as I know, Slovakia does not allow dual citizenship for it's citizens. Correct me if wrong. On the other hand, I know for a fact lot of ethnic Serbs from Vojvodina became Hungarian citizens despite they have nothing to do with Hungary not they plan to live there. They used opportunity current law provides for them to get EU passport, and than work in western European countries without any problem. I know this because Hungarians from Vojvodina told me so.
I now have dual Croatian and Hungarian citizenship. I speak Hungarian well on conversational level, but I can tell you language skills interview they ask you is a joke. It is very minimal requirenment, something that can be learned with few weeks of intense practice. In comparison, criteria for gaining Croatian citizenship is much, much stricter even for ethnic Croats born outside of Croatia except for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Are you fine with this, or do you think your government shouldn't give out passports all that easily? Discuss.
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