Hungary votes on citizenship to millions outside its borders
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Hungarians were voting in a referendum on extending citizenship to millions of ethnic Hungarians living in the region, a motion that has split the country and drawn fire from neighboring governments.
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Eastern Europe&#39;s largest country outside of Russia stands at a crossroads this weekend, as voters in Ukraine decide between an autocratic leader who leans toward an increasingly autocratic Russia, or a democratic one who wants closer ties to the West.
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The results of the referendum held in Hungary on 5 December defuse the potential danger of new tensions among European states with ethnic Hungarian minorities.
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About 10,000 Hungarians protested   peacefully outside parliament overnight and there was a risk a   far-right rally on Friday could trigger more riots after Prime   Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's admission he had lied.
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Many haven't lived in the United States for years, but Americans around the globe were focused on their home country as it elected a new president.
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More than 80,000 Ukrainians staying abroad have cast their ballots in the runoff presidential vote as of 21.30, Foreign Ministry press service says.
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Polls opened early Sunday for a vote on whether ethnic Hungarians should get Hungarian citizenship, an issue that is expected to reopen a decades old wound in the country.
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Nine mainly ex-East bloc countries on Friday tore down their borders to join a European zone allowing 400 million people to travel from the Arctic Circle in Norway to Portugal without showing a passport.
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6 December 2004 -- Preliminary official results show that voters failed to approve a referendum on whether to give ethnic Hungarians living outside the country the right to become Hungarian citizens.
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The spontaneous uprising in 1956 by Hungarian students and workers protesting Soviet rule led to 20,000 deaths, countless injuries and an exodus of 250,000 people from Hungary.
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GENEVA  - Dashing the chance for almost 200,000 youngsters to get citizenship easily, voters in this Alpine country rejected two government proposals to loosen tough naturalization rules in a referendum Sunday.
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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BUDAPEST -- Tens of thousands rallied peacefully in Budapest yesterday in the biggest demonstration so far against Hungary's prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, over his admission that he lied to the electorate about the dire state of the economy .
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Hungarians have voted in local ballots seen as the first key test of socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany since his admission that he lied about the economy triggered riots and demands for his resignation.
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The ending of border checks between the former communist states of eastern Europe and Western neighbours on Friday carries a potent symbolism for those who for long lived behind the Iron Curtain and were then made to feel like "second class citizens" in a united Europe.
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Hungary's new prime minister, who campaigned against giving citizenship to ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries, claimed victory Sunday when a referendum to enfranchise them failed.
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Polls are due to open in Hungary for a double referendum on citizenship rights and the health care system.