"Citizenship "is a form of symbolic relationship - recognition that after 90 years of living without Hungary we maintain our identity, we value our mother tongue..."
Officially Romania has about 1.5 million ethnic Hungarians.
Southern Slovakia is home to roughly 500,000 ethnic Hungarians, about a tenth of the country's population.
More than 250,000 ethnic Hungarians also live in Serbia
Link to the BBC news article from January 2011 explaining the changes.
