MEPs revisit post-WW II period in debate on Slovak minorities

The controversial issue of post-WWII property rights and expulsions has again come under the spotlight in the European Parliament as several MEPs reacted angrily to a recent declaration by the Slovak parliament which they see as "discriminatory" for the Hungarian minority in the country.

MEPs in the parliament's committee on civil liberties debated the sensitive issue - known as the Benes decrees - on Monday (5 October) during a general discussion on the "discrimination of national mino...