Brussels, 17/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - Enlargement Commissioner Günter Verheugen restated on Tuesday his appeal to the Hungarian government to begin serious and substantive consultation with neighbouring countries (mainly Slovakia and Romania) on the implementation of the "status law" on persons belonging to Hungarian minorities living outside Hungary. The law in itself does not run counter to the provisions of the EU/Hungary Europe Agreement (which, at this stage, is the contractual...