Category Archives: Hungary

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Czech Republic, Roma Refugees and Hungarians

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Czech Republic, Roma Refugees and Hungarians

There is more and more talk about refugees from Ukraine who have Hungarian passports in addition to Ukrainian citizenship. Politicians talk about these refugees mainly in connection with the Roma fleeing the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The South Moravian Governor Jan Grolich from KDU-ČSL was the first to mention “Hungarian Ukrainians” without any knowledge and context and to to accuse them to abuse social benefits in the Czech Republic. The mayor of the capital city of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, also justifies the Hungarian citizenship not to register them.

As said, the Orban government granted many residents of Transcarpathian Ukraine the Hungarian cisitzenship.

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Roma in Hungary

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Roma in Hungary

A reportage in Nyiregyhaza, in Eastern Hungary, in a day care centre in a Roma settlement. What the reportage omits to say here, is that these schools and day-care centres are de-facto segregated, as no non-Roma ever goes there. De facto, this perpetuates the segregation.

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Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Republic

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Ukrainian Roma who also hold a Hungarian passport, of which there are quite a few as Orban gave the citizenship to anyone speaking Hungarian in the Ukraine, face difficulties in the Czech Republic: They are denied help and being told to go to Hungary.

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Roma Refugees and Hungary

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Roma Refugees and Hungary

Some Romnja were prevented from leaving the Ukraine several times before being able to cross into Hungary.

Bad.

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Hungarian Elections

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Hungarian Elections

A campaign is underway in Hungary to prevent vote buying among Roma, a practice that is quite common unfortunately. The Clean Vote campaign is trying to draw attention to electoral abuses, mostly in poor Roma settlements. “Unfortunately, thousands of people in Hungary are influenced in the exercise of their voting rights. This endangers the cleanliness of the elections, thus the democratic system of Hungary, ” they write on their website.

Their advice: “Even if you accept 5-10 thousand forints, no one can enter the booth with you” …

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Ukrainian Refugees

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Ukrainian Refugees

Two articles in the French Press on refugees from the Ukraine. In Budapest and in Warsaw. In Budapest, Roma have been sent to a vagrant shelter, and in Warsaw, they struggle to find lodgings.

Hongire Nouvelles d'Europe de l'est Ukraine

Hungary and Ukrainian Roma

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Hungary and Ukrainian Roma

A pastor in Tiszabecs, right at the Hungarian Ukrainian border, helped 150-200 Roma refugees from the Ukraine. He is not alone, as in the neighbouring village of Uszka, anothe pastor also helped (see other article).

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Hungary and Roma

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Hungary and Roma

Hungary’s Roma suffer from exclusion, poverty and a lack of education. But many Roma politicians are ensnared in conflict and corruption instead of finding a remedy. And there are no Roma in Parliament.

Orban’s government is fuelling this corruption in search for votes.

This is bad.

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LGBT+ in Central Europe

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LGBT+ in Central Europe

They not only face discrimination from the society at large, but also from their own families.

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Jenő Setét

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Jenő Setét

The Hungarian Roma activist Jenő Setét died last week at the age of 50.

May he rest in peace.

He had become, over the course of his years of activism, the main figure in the fight for the inclusion of the Roma minority in Hungarian society. Noting that “today there is a lack of a politically aware Roma community” capable of defending its political, economic and social interests, he multiplied initiatives to bring out this political awareness.

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