ForMin wants Hungary to explain words on Benes decrees

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek has summoned the Hungarian ambassador for Tuesday to explain the words by Hungarian parliament head Laszlo Koever that the Czech Republic and Slovakia should not have joined the EU over the post-war Benes decrees, Zaoralek said on Monday. The Benes decrees provided for the confiscation of the property of collaborators, traitors, ethnic Germans and Hungarians, except for those who themselves suffered under the Nazis.