The state border line between Slovakia and Hungary should be adjusted due to planned water management projects on the Ipeľ River, according to a proposal unanimously approved by the Slovak parliamentary constitutional committee on Tuesday. A parliamentary plenum will have the final say on the matter in a vote due to be held later this month, with at least 90 MPs from the 150-member House required to vote for the border relocation to be passed. An agreement between Slovakia and Hungary to that effect was signed in Amsterdam on January 25, 2016, replacing an earlier treaty from 1956. The border will be moved to the newly created Ipeľ river bed, with the related territorial reductions to be compensated at other locations.
Gavin Shoebridge, Photo: TASR
