{"id":29730,"date":"2025-09-07T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=29730"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:41:46","slug":"pilis-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/pilis-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilis, Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pilis, a town of 12,000 inhabitants an hour from Budapest, resembles many other towns in the Hungarian countryside. A shopping centre with ABCs, the grocery stores where you can find everything. A Kossuth Road, a key figure in the 1848-1849 uprising against the Habsburgs, crossed by the national highway. A street and even a small park named after Petofi, the iconic 19th-century poet. A monument to the Treaty of Trianon, which dismembered Hungary after the First World War and permeated the national narrative.<\/p>\n

But since September 1st, Pilis has stood out by implementing radical measures to prevent settlements deemed undesirable. The far-right municipality, which came to power last fall, is closing the town to criminals, drug users or dealers, people without employment or social security for more than a year, applicants who do not speak or understand Hungarian, and business owners with tax arrears or those under bailiff proceedings.<\/p>\n

Roma, of course will fall under some of those categories, whether true or not \u2026<\/p>\n