Pester Lloyd (2014) draws a grim record in its analysis of the Hungarian Rroma policy. Six years have passed since a series of attacks against the minority. It took the Hungarian state that long to compensate the families of the six murdered victims. They will receive 7,500 Euros per family. It follows a detailed chronology of the murders and their cover-up by the authorities, with a clear accusation of racial prejudice among the Hungarian police. Pester Lloyd states: “Despite grandiose assertions by missionary driven minister Balog – nothing relevant has changed about the situation of the Roma, their impoverishment, exclusion and paternalism and certainly nothing about their rejection by the majority population. The “National Rroma Strategy” has always been and remains to this day, a supervisory program without self-determined perspective, the Roma have been and continue to be treated as a foreign body to the nation, even more so in today’s enforced nationalist interpretation of the Magyars”. The ground for pogroms against the Rroma is said to have remained the same since the series of attacks and even to be better organized and financed.

• Pester Lloyd (2014) Bis zum nächsten Pogrom? In: Pester Llyod online vom 7.3.2014. http://www.pesterlloyd.net/html/1410romaentschaedigung.html

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