Hungary needs voice of Radio Free Europe

2012. március 02. 15:05

Hungary is at risk of becoming a constitutional dictatorship and a pariah in the West.

2012. március 02. 15:05
Haraszti Miklós, Charles Gati, Mark Palmer

„With the fall of Hungary's Western-style, pluralistic democracy, the time is right for the United States to reinstate Radio Free Europe's Hungarian-language broadcasts. Hungarian would then join 28 other languages in which Radio Free Europe transmits its programs on radio stations in countries of the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia and the Balkans. The president of one of these countries told one of us last year that he begins every morning by listening to RFE's summary of the news.

While Hungary is a member of both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, it is at risk of becoming a constitutional dictatorship and a pariah in the West. Its hastily adopted new constitution has no meaningful provisions for checks and balances. All branches of government and all independent institutions, including the judiciary, are controlled by Orban and his party for nine years with automatic renewal for many more similar terms.

Since his election in 2010, Orban has followed a confrontational, nationalist foreign policy vis-a-vis the West, which stands in stark contrast to his approach to the authoritarians in Russia and, especially, China. He speaks kindly of »eastern winds« while predicting the »decline of the West.« He deploys statist yet utterly unpredictable economic policies, precipitating a downgrading of the Hungarian economy to junk status by all three major credit agencies. Finally, Orban is pursuing a ferocious cultural war calculated to court the supporters of Jobbik, an anti-Romany, anti-Semitic far-right party.”

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Magyarok Pásztora
2012. március 03. 12:40
Haraszti ! Gáti ! Palmer ! Nem kell komcsiliberál szabadság/demokrácia ! Jó nekünk a magyar is !
öszödibeszéd
2012. március 03. 07:49
A Soros szarul van?
anaphylaxiás sokk
2012. március 03. 00:12
Már korábban is leírtam, de Gáti Csárliékat nagyon lealázhatták ama ominózus tárgyaláson Washingtonban, hogyha egy RÁDIÓadóért így kell pitizniük az internet korszakában. Ha komolyan vennék őket, akkor arról szólnának a hírek, hogy "Gáti CSárli, az új budapesti USA-nagykövet hivatalában fogadta a SZER-főnökét, Haraszti urat." Lehet csinálni SZERt, senki nem tiltja, szerintem most pénzért pitiznek mindenhol. Elmennek ezek még a FAZba is!
slomovicz
2012. március 02. 23:47
Dear Mr. Haraszti end Gati! This is Yours Partner. "There is not much choice. There is not, because we have screwed up. Not a little but a lot. No country in Europe has screwed up as much as we have. It can be explained. We have obviously lied throughout the past 18 to 24 months. It was perfectly clear that what we were saying was not true. We are beyond the country's possibilities to such an extent that we could not conceive earlier that a joint government of the Socialists and the liberals would ever do. And in the meantime we did not actually do anything for four years. Nothing. You cannot mention any significant government measures that we can be proud of, apart from the fact that in the end we managed to get governance out of the shit. Nothing. If we have to give an account to the country of what we have done in four years, what are we going to say? Naturally, the government's work is not constructed nicely, calmly or scrupulously. No. No. It is being prepared at a mad break-neck speed because we could not do it for a while in case it came to light, and now we have to do it so desperately that we are almost at the breaking point. And then we end up falling over because we cannot keep up the pace. This is the situation. In the meantime, we still have to come to an agreement with the free democrats because we still have ministerial problems - you know. Look. The point is that there are no options in the short-term. [Finance Minister] Jani [Janos] Veres is right. We can dither a little longer but not much. The moment of truth has arrived quickly. Ferenc Gyurcsany PM. 2008 Yes. This is Your Partner. :-) You Are Idiot. :-)
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