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Poll: Jobbik 2010 Manifesto
The best part in the manifesto is...
Hungary
VONA: What do we mean by radicalism?
At a conference not too long ago I said that today Hungary only has one programme, and that it is Jobbik’s. I also added, that it didn’t matter who ended up forming a government in 2010, if it wasn’t us, whoever did would only be presented with two choices: either implementing Jobbik’s programme, or letting us do so.
Lies, Damn Lies and Sajóbábony
A swarm of media reports have come out of this small town, almost every national press outlet on both the Left and Right has been united in retelling a version of events, of violence and fighting between groups in the town’s thoroughfares, that has only one common feature: it is categorical rejected by everyone who was actually present, from the town’s Mayor, to the Gypsy population in the street....
New Hungarian Guard ensures peaceful passing of commemorative events
They were there, in their thousands. Lurking down every side street and alley way, armed to the teeth and waiting only for the order to strike. How many hundreds upon hundreds of Hungarian village communities paralyzed by crime, yearn to this day to see a mere one of their number? But the Hungarian police know that catching criminals is not the reason they exist, exerting political control is....
Hungary’s Helsinki Committee abandons own founding principles
The Helsinki Committee of Hungary no longer believes in equality before the law. It no longer ascribes to the tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In short the Helsinki Committee believes that only those who share their own politics deserve protection from arbitrary arrest and summary judicial punishment....
Vona uses October 23rd speech to condemn extremism
In a speech to tens of thousands of Jobbik supporters this Friday, the President of the Movement for a Better Hungary, Gábor Vona, challenged Hungary’s political establishment to stop whipping up non-existent controversy in a vain attempt to reinforce their own political relevance; and square up to the challenge, as Jobbik had, of dealing with the horrendous political extremism which had truly blighted the first 20 years of the modern Hungarian Republic....
MTI’s “impartiality” warrants official enquiry
Approaching the 2010 election campaign, deliberate distortions and slanderous nonsense against the Movement for a Better Hungary are to be expected from its political opponents, as part and parcel of the democratic process. But, Jobbik argues, taxpayer funded Hungarian news agencies are now failing in their duty to be impartial to such an extent as to warrant specific investigation....
Fidesz appropriation of Jobbik policies continues, electorate remains unconvinced.
Desperate to secure a majority at next year’s Hungarian general election, the opposition Fidesz party’s behaviour is beginning to exhibit precisely that chief quality that also characterizes the incumbent MSZP Socialists: taking the Hungarian electorate for fools....
Slovakia Curtails Free Speech through Restrictive Language Law
Imagine you are in your homeland, purchasing a ticket at the local train station. You walk up to the ticket counter and ask for a ticket in your own language. The clerk replies in your language, but the train company is fined 5,000 EURO ($7,075) for this "crime." Is this an Orwellian nightmare? Unfortunately, no. As of September 1, this is a realistic scenario in Slovakia--a member of NATO and the European Union, a country located in the heart of Europe....
On the newest chapter of the Hungarian-Slovakian conflict
Jobbik was not surprised by the latest incident in the festering Hungarian-Slovakian relations, when, on the 21st of August, the Slovakian authorities, in an unprecedented way during the existence of the European Union, denied entry to Slovakia to Mr. László Sólyom, the President of Hungary, saying that "they would unable to guaranty his personal security”. ...
