January 27th, 2012

Jobbik holds anti-EU roadblock demonstration near Slovak border

The radical nationalist Jobbik party held a demonstration against the government’s measures and Hungary’s membership of the European Union in northeastern Hungary on Friday.

Seven or eight cars blocked half of the lanes on road 26 near Sajoszentpeter on Friday morning, slowing down traffic, which is already heavy here, en route to the chemicals giant BorsodChem plant and to neighbouring Slovakia.

The organisers said the demonstration is against government measures hitting local councils, high fuel prices and Hungary’s EU membership.

The demonstration is planned to continue over the weekend, the organisers said.

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  1. Feher Gyorgy says:

    For my part Jobbik can block all the roads to Europe, as long as they leave a gateway to transport the billions of EU funds, as Hungary will need this money to realize the magnificent plans made by Orban.

    Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself, so I hope that our right wing friends will learn to be patient, while Orban makes new clever moves to confuse the rest of Europe.

    • Popular says:

      Feher baby,

      Are you perhaps talking about the debt load of billions of EU funds that your bodies Gyruccsany and Bajnai put on the shoulders of Hungarians, those Hungarians who never really benefited from the money? Or are you talking about the billions that your buddies Gyurcsany and Bajna lined up for Hungarians to take on as some more debt, bud Orban refused to make use of it? Funny, in those days you were not worried. Now you can go and kiss their asses … maybe there will be a few crumbs for you as well from those billions they managed to divide among themselves.

      • Big Fish says:

        Gee, that sound awfully familiar (“load of billions of EU funds that your bodies Gyruccsany and Bajnai put on the shoulders of Hungarians…..”). the “Intl Bankers” did the same in Weimar Germany. It ended badly for them, that is the Bankers.
        Some things (and people) never change.

      • American in Budapest says:

        No, he is talk the EU money that pays for virtually all Hungarian development projects including the new water lines in Budapest and the renovated Margit Hid.

        I suggest you wake up and smell the shit.

        Hungary is a poor country where the savings of the personal sector is channeled into purchases of government bonds to finance social spending.

        Net savings in Hungary is very low and the country is consequently unable to finance any public investment without EU assistance.

        Again, smell the shit.

      • spectator says:

        “Or are you talking about the billions that your buddies Gyurcsany and Bajna lined up for Hungarians to take on as some more debt, bud Orban refused to make use of it?”

        You’ve obviously missed some bits and pieces here and there, – maybe that’s why you talk rubbish – I certainly wouldn’t suspect that you lying on purpose…

        As the rest of the people has learned a while ago, Mr.Orban has made “use” of that money: he had purchased Surgut’s 21.2% stake of MOL for 1.88 billion euros – some 500 billion HUF at the time – providing a “mere” 40% ROI to our dear friends in Russia, and since then managed to lose around the half of that sum on that investment alone.

        According to your brilliant logic, this is entirely the fault of those bodies/buddies: Mr.Gyurcsany and Mr.Bajnai.
        You must have been thinking maybe a bit too hard, to come up with all of this, take it easy, don’t overload yourself, it may even hurt you!

        • wolfi says:

          I still keep wondering why nobody mentions Péter Medgyessy – he won the election in 2002 and stayed on for more than two years …

          But some people here have such a short memory …

    • Sophist says:

      “Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself”?

      George, I hang on your every word.

      • JA aka justasking says:

        @Sophist,

        “George, I hang on your every word”

        I find his posts inspiring…as a matter of fact, after reading them, I usually break out into song.

  2. Hrvat Tito says:

    “anti-EU roadblock near Slovak border”

    what a heck ? are the EU-Slovaks about to invade Hungary an occupy it ?..did the Jobbiks sing the Marseillaise too ?

    • andy says:

      @Hrvat Tito: No, it is just homesick head of Jobbik: Gabor Vona – Gabo Zazrivec (correct name). He is just missing his homeland :) Anyway, there was also a quite big demonstration against corrupted politicians in Bratislava today. It seemed to me, that starting rough times in central Europe. Enough is enough. Let´s see. Anyway, isn´t it strange, that biggest Magyars are always not Magyars?

      • Hrvat Tito says:

        “Anyway, isn´t it strange, that biggest Magyars are always not Magyars?”

        No, you can find a lot of similar stories in the history of other countries.
        There is a saying about this, on the religious identity : “nobody is as zealous as a recent convert”.

        Such people are “insecure” and have a constant need to “prove” (to themselves or others, or both) to prove that they are Magyars. Because of this they overdo, they are excessive, they are exaggerating so as no doubt to be left.
        They differ from someone who has been born Magyar and has always thought about himself as being Magyar and thus feels no need to prove that 2+2=4.
        In psychology it is called “reaction formation”, a sort of neurotic behavior.

  3. Popular says:

    Hej, majmune jedan! Šta tražiš ti ovde? Beži kući!

  4. rj says:

    To hell with the EU

    • spectator says:

      So right!

      In any minutes now Mr.Matolcsy will set in motion his latest and greatest idea ever, which would provide sufficient founds to realize Mr.Orban’s promise of the one million new jobs, and the EU will turn green of envy as an unprecedented prosperity sweeping suddenly over Hungary and the Hungarians…!

      Yeah, the hell with the EU, who need them?