Hungary/Slovakia: While applications for Hungarian citizenship in neighbouring countries increase, Slovakia is likely to go back to toleration of dual citizenship
In 2010, the Hungarian Parliament passed an amendment to the Hungarian Citizenship Act that provides for a preferential and accelerated naturalisation of Hungarians who are descendants of former citizens. The new citizenship law took effect on Monday 3 January 2010 and applications for Hungarian citizenship from neighbouring countries are already increasing. Before being ousted in elections in June 2010, the Slovak government had responded with a law depriving Slovaks of their citizenship of they voluntarily acquired a foreign one. The current government tries to limit the effects of the Hungarian law on the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, but has now proposed a bill that would go back to tolerating dual citizenship.