March 08, 2010, 10:25 CET
Radical nationalists urge "eastern" turn in foreign policy
The radical nationalist Jobbik party presented ideas on Friday for a foreign policy that would orientate Hungary towards the East, the party's new foreign policy expert told reporters.
Marton Gyongyosi said foreign policy should be based on national interests and "brotherly ties". He added that though Hungary was geographically placed in Europe, its "national roots" were with "eastern peoples" which is why foreign policy should open towards such countries as China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey.
Hungary's diplomacy should shed its euro-Atlantic dominance and focus on "national interests", before the interests of NATO or the EU, the candidate said. He added that Jobbik, if elected to the next parliament, will call for a "radical revisiting" of the Lisbon Treaty, whose signing he said had been "completely anti-democratic".
Jobbik also envisages a new Balkans policy and would dedicate a new ministry for the affairs of Hungarians beyond the border, Gyongyosi said.
Jobbik announced in February that it is setting up a shadow government. Its members so far are Tamas Gaudi-Nagy for Justice, Lajos Posze for the Prime Minister's Office and Geza Gyenes for health care.
Polls indicate Jobbik as one of three parties to get seats in Parliament after the general elections in April.
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What does all this nonsense mean:
"radical revisiting" of the Lisbon Treaty ?
Now do they want to leave the EU ?
They can't change its way of operating against the will of the majority in the EU, so what ...
According to the szkíta-hun-avar crowd was the 150 years of Ottoman-Hungarian conflict and Turkish occupation really what it seemed, or was it just Hungarians uniting with their eastern brethren?
I love the way Jobbik and Fidesz are both looking east to peoples that they really wouldn't want to deal with person-to-person simply because they look physically different. Hungary has spent the last 20 years doing all it can to tell Chinese people (and other eastern nationals such as Koreans, Vietnamese and others too) to 'p*ss off home' and now they want to be friends?
And isn't it pathetic that Kazakhstan constantly figures in the far-right's cultural-historical mythology? Let's just remember that Kazakhstan is pretty much a dictatorship currently run with the help of the former chairman of BAE (the one that sold Hungary those shitty fighter jets after the then Orbán government sold out the country to a minor Austrian royal with plenty of baksheesh to offer). Clowns.
@Pávaszem and Tünde: So tell me again, how marvelous is Chávez? The right is strangely quiet about him these days. No more gushing praise on Echo and Hír TV.
Ratification vote by MP's: 325 votes for, five six against and 14 abstentions.
How was this anti-Democratic?
Hungary need not look east,west,south, or north,
for anything.
It only needs to look within to find the root of all its problems.
Jobbik is getting carrried away with its new-found success. Why try to ditch current trading partners for another set of moonshiners in the East?
The Lisbon Treaty has been ratified and that's it. Waste no more time on it.
TAX, Bureaucracy, Education,Job programmes, Vocational Training, Transport, Tourism, Energy
etc. When I hear from a Party addressing these issues with a view to reform I will listen and perhaps give them my vote. Not likely though, because most politicians in Hungary are no better
than glorified pipsqueaks. Promising a lot and delivering nothing.
PS: @Vándorló. Some good info supplied and well done. We need to restore some sanity around here and start discussing relevant issues rather than
have endless tedious questions and drivel from Canadians and Americans et al.