Ethnic pitch; Hungary; Hungary woos its Magyar diaspora.(efforts to protect and attract Magyars in other countries)(Europe)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 7, 2001 | Copyright information

THE women clad in traditional floral dresses and headscarves who sell earthenware plates and shawls to tourists near the foreign ministry may soon get a warmer welcome in Hungary's capital. For they are Magyars, or ethnic-Hungarians, who come from parts of present-day Romania that fell within Hungary's borders until 1918, and are therefore among some 3m-4m would-be beneficiaries of a plan by the country's right-wing government, led by Viktor Orban, to boost the lot of ethnic-Hungar...

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