On July 3, 2018, Kőszeg (Hungary) hosted a session “At the Intersection of Migration and Populist Politics” within XXIII International Summer University (ISU) "Europe in the Vortex of Change”.
On July 3, 2018, Kőszeg (Hungary) hosted a session “At the Intersection of Migration and Populist Politics” within XXIII ...
... Soviet era, only two opinions could exist: the one [currently] held by the ruling party and the wrong one. The situation in the European Union today is very similar, only in addition to the correct opinion (held by Brussels and Berlin) and the incorrect opinion (held by Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Romania), there is a third view. The humanitarian organisation Medicins Sans Frontieres ('Doctors Without ... ... strongly criticised the EU summit decision to impose mandatory quotas and support the Libyan authorities in countering illegal migration. "Libya is not a safe place and blocking people in the country or returning them to Libya makes a mockery of the ...
... Europe. Even before the mass influx of migrants, Hungary accepted fewer applications for asylum than any other European country (
9.4 per cent
).
Switzerland
, which granted asylum to 300,000 refugees in 2014, has an acceptance rate of 76.6 per cent.
Migration is a Blow to Central and Eastern European Identity
Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP
More than 1,000 people enter Hungary
from the south every day
The European Union risks cutting itself off even further from the mood and opinions of its citizens, which could pave the way for right-wing and ultra-right-wing political parties to gain a foothold in the future.
The first serious identity crisis for the ...