 The Slovak authorities denied the registration of a Hungarian traditional folk art association, because they used the Hungarian word "Kárpát-medence" (Carpathian Basin).According to Dušan Čaplovič the word and the association is against the sovereignty of Slovakia, furthermore the word is fascist, it is familiar with the German Lebensraum, and Hungarians use it in this ideology.On September 1, 2009 more than ten thousand Hungarians held demonstrations to protest against the so-called language law that limits the use of minority languages in Slovakia.