During the regular parliamentary question hour on Thursday, Interior Minister Robert Kalinak stated in response to a question from deputies that the Slovak government would not allow changes to the border between Slovakia and Hungary through the reopening of the 1920 Treaty of Trianon. Ruling SMER-SD deputies opened up the Trianon Treaty topic when they addressed a question to Prime Minister Robert Fico pertaining to the peace treaty that established European borders after World War I. Of thirty questions directed to the prime minister during the regular parliamentary question time, eight were related to Trianon and all were posted by SMER-SD deputies. Minister Robert Kalinak, who spoke on behalf of the absent prime minister, said that any revision of the Treaty of Trianon is unacceptable for Slovakia. Recalling the ghosts of the past and calls to redraw central European borders are unacceptable in the integrating Europe of the 21st century, he said. According to Mr. Kalinak, the confirmation of the Treaty of Trianon at a peace conference in Paris in 1947 obliged Hungary not to tolerate organizations whose aim it is to revise the Trianon Treaty. Mr. Kalinak stated that the Hungarian side is apparently disrespecting this. He criticized Hungary for tolerating the existence of the paramilitary organization the Hungarian Guard, the ultra rightist party Jobbik and the extremist youth movement, 64 Counties.
The Treaty of Trianon was the peace treaty concluded at the end of World War I by the Allies of World War I, on one side, and Hungary, seen as a successor to Austria-Hungary, on the other. It established the borders of Hungary with its neighbors and regulated its international situation. The principal beneficiaries of this territorial adjustment were Romania, Czechoslovakia, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The treaty was signed on June 4, 1920 at Trianon, France.