House speakers mark anniversary of Hungarian-Croatian Compromise

House Speaker Laszlo Kover and his Croatian counterpart, Gordan Jandrokovic, marked the 150th anniversary of the Hungarian-Croatian Compromise at a conference in Budapest on Wednesday. Cooperation is needed more than ever now that "we may be facing a trial more taxing than ever before," Kover said in his address. The European Union offers the framework for an alliance, he said. Jandrokovic said that the sovereign states of Hungary and Croatia, from a distance of 150 years, have the possibility to evaluate the compromise objectively.