The radical nationalist Jobbik party will launch a campaign to prevent Hungary’s arable land and water resources from getting into the hands of foreign investors, a party lawmaker said on Saturday.
The party wanted to include in Hungary’s new constitution, approved last month, a ban on the sale of arable land and water resources to foreigners, but the governing parties voted against this proposal.
Tibor Bana said Jobbik would send its experts on a tour of Hungary to meet those affected, and to reveal “tricks” used by foreigners to buy Hungarian land, despite the European Union moratorium which is in force until the spring of 2014.
Zoltan Magyar, a Jobbik lawmaker from Gyor-Moson-Sopron County, said as many as 12 “tricks” have been identified so far, including faked marriage between a Hungarian and foreign citizen and getting a Hungarian landowner indebted to a foreigner.
Magyar said the government should restart negotiations with the EU on the subject and protect Hungarian interests in the long term.
Arable land makes up 87 percent of Hungary’s territory as against the EU average of 27 percent and the global average of under 10 percent. According to data from the Austrian chamber of agriculture, some 2 million hectares of Hungarian arable land is already owned by Austrians, Magyar said.
“The radical nationalist Jobbik party will launch a campaign to prevent Hungary’s arable land and water resources from getting into the hands of foreign investors”
Why is it a “radical nationalist” idea to protect our most valuable resources? It’s common sense.
Pretty soon it will be a matter of survival.
We should support small farms, producing good quality food locally, instead of relying on multies to supply us with cheap crap from who knows where. There’s simply nothing more important for any nation than arable land, water, and small farms. Giving up these for money or EU pressure would be treason, the most serious crime against the people.
Hungary produces good crops, and vegetables, and meat.
I live in a village and take advantage of buying tasty, wholesome, local produce, at reasonable prices.
What the fuck you lot are buying in the supermarkets is anybody’s guess. But rest assured they will all be contributable factors to your next heart attack, thrombosis, or cancer.
Heaven forbid, maybe all three!
Jo napot kivanok!
‘There’s simply nothing more important for any nation than arable land, water, and small farms. Giving up these for money or EU pressure would be treason, the most serious crime against the people.’
Pat Riot at May 9, 2011 1:45 PM
Hear, hear!
I second that emotion. Arable land, good crops, healthy lifestyles, hard work, community spirit, harvest festival, falu nap/village day, celebrations. And sweet music that accompanies the wine tasting and dancing.
Hungary in the summer in the villages with all the traditions:- where joyful enterprise abounds with the freedom of a lark floating in the sky.
@ Pat Riot …..you took the words out of my mouth!
But how is it possible that some 2 million hectares of Hungarian arable land is already owned by Austrians???!!
Me – small Chineese worker – ready take over land and work hard. Make Tisza new Huang He , make Szeged new Shanghai. Global warming make rice new wheat.
Then – us Chineese-Hungarians make Trianon obsolete. Make Turul – old Chineese symbol – reign again over Kárpát-medence.
Long live milenary Hungaro-Chinese friendship.
Hi hi hi !
“Me – small Chineese worker – ready take over land and work hard.”
No, thanks. We already have an overpopulating minority here, maybe one day they get the hang of working hard, instead of making babies for money.
You not understand. Us – not minority. Us – small Chneese – majority. You – Magyar kisebbseg.
Resistance is futile ! We are the BORG.