From: Euro|topics Press review of 28/06/2011 Tears of joy over nationalised Hungarians

Around 100,000 Hungarians living outside their home country have received Hungarian citizenship since last year, a spokesman for the right-wing conservative government of Viktor Orbán announced on Monday. The conservative daily Magyar Nemzet, which has close ties to the government, expresses its delight that the Hungarian population is growing once more thanks to the new citizenship law passed a year ago: “Today it is enough for a person to have Hungarian ancestors. … The interest in the simplified nationalisation procedures is undiminished. A good example of this is the Hungarian consulate in the Romanian city of Cluj Napoca. Applicants have to wait until May 2012 for an appointment. … In another Romanian city, Miercurea Ciuc, tears come to your eyes when you look at the Hungarian consulate’s guest book there: a brand new Hungarian citizen talks of it being the ‘happiest day’ of his life. … At long last we have a year in which the Hungarian population has grown instead of shrinking”.

Read the report (in Hungarian) in the Magyar Nemzet.