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Walker calls it a dogwhistle but it is too overt to qualify as that. I would hope that other states treat Hungary as a pariah but I suspect that there is a core of antisemitism across all the countries that had regimes that collaborated with the Nazis, and some that did not.
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Yes, these are worrying times in Central Europe. Orban is further on with this stuff than other leaders in the region, but there are elements in other countries (certainly in Slovakia) that think he should be some sort of role-model.
I'm going to Budapest for a school event next week, so it'll be interesting to hear what my colleagues from there have to say.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostWalker calls it a dogwhistle but it is too overt to qualify as that. I would hope that other states treat Hungary as a pariah but I suspect that there is a core of antisemitism across all the countries that had regimes that collaborated with the Nazis, and some that did not.
his report is here
Gero we know some people in Britain would be sympathetic- Orban does a very unpleasant line in anti Muslim rhetoric too. I think they'll be supported by people who see British position spost Brexit trengthened by the weakening of the EU that comes from having governments like Orban or the Poles and Austrians . The current Israeli government which criticised its own ambasssador in Budapest when he complained about the Hungarian government's anti-semitic poster campaign about Soros has given them a figleaf allowing them to back him with impunity.
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There isn’t a treaty basis for expulsion.
There is, on the other hand, a provision allowing for the suspension of significant rights
Both Hungary and Poland have been threatened with this recently without it going very far.
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I hope they can do that. But it looks like the EU's been here before, and I can't remember anything coming of it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-e...82B0S120120312
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Increasingly I think he may be right. As appalling as it is to even think it. And it does seem to be an idea that is gaining traction. In a recent by-election this was (unofficially unspokenly) tried and it was a huge success (though the candidate that was left to fight Fidesz was not a Jobbik candidate, which makes it leave less of a hideous taste in the mouth)
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This is a reasonable summary of where we are now, with a week to go before the election https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hungarys-r...-sh&soc_trk=tw
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