At 6 PM on February 6th, 2018, we will host the thirty-second debate of the VERITAS Debate Nights series at the Budapest Business School. The title of the debate is The Bratislava Bridgehead and the Years of Statelessness. Gábor Hollósi, VERITAS Senior Research Fellow, and Árpád Popély, Associate Professor at Selye János University (Komarno, SK) will familiarize the audience with the topic, while Gábor Ujváry, VERITAS Head of Institute, will lead the discussion.
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The February program of the VERITAS Debate Nights series promises to be memorable, for the debaters intend to provide a penetrating analysis of the history of Hungarian-Slovak relations, from the founding of the Czechoslovak state, to the creation of the so-called Bratislava bridgehead, to the reannexation of the communities of Somoskő and Somoskőújfalu, to the First Vienna Award and to the Paris peace treaties that impacted the border adjustments between the two states. Additionally the three men will touch upon the border negotiations (that is, the most contentions points therein) that stretched to 1952, as well as the population exchange agreement of 1946 and its consequences. The apropos of the debate is Dr. Hollósi’s study The Bratislava Bridgehead: The Negotiations of the Border Committee (1947–1949), which has just been completed and coincides with the seventieth anniversary of the Paris peace treaties and the start of the border negotiations.
