Hungarian oppositionist attacks Benes decrees

The former Prime Minister of Hungary and current leader of the opposition, Viktor Orbán, has called on the Czech Republic and Slovakia to rescind all the 1946-46 decrees which legalised the mass expulsion of Germans and Hungarians from Czechoslovakia. Orbán, who repeatedly called for the Bene¨ decrees to be rescinded while he was Prime Minister, met the leader of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, and confirmed that his party will campaign jointly with the Christian Democrats in next year's elections to the European Parliament.