RFE/RL: Slovak Government Approves Hungarian Language Faculty At Nitra University

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Subject: RFE/RL: Slovak Government Approves Hungarian Language Faculty At Nitra University

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Slovak Government Approves Hungarian Language Faculty At
Nitra University

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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 17, Part II, 25 January 2001A daily report
of developments in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the
Caucasus and Central Asia prepared by the staff of Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty.

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SLOVAK GOVERNMENT APPROVES HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE FACULTY AT NITRA
UNIVERSITY. By a narrow majority, the cabinet on 24January approved
the setting up of a faculty with Hungarian-language tuition within the
existing Nitra university. The faculty is to train Hungarian-language
teachers and offer other arts-related degrees, CTK and AP reported.
The cabinet earmarked 10 million crowns (some$6.85 million) for
financing the faculty. Slovak Democratic Left ministers abstained. The
decision stops short of the Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK)'s demand
that a Hungarian- language independent university be set up in Nitra,
but SMK deputy premier Pal Csaky described it as "a positive and
strong political signal." The cabinet remains divided on the SMK's
demand that the preamble of the constitution be changed and a separate
administrative district be set up in the southern region, and on the
transfer of land whose owners are unknown to the jurisdiction of local
administration. MS


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