„In the case of Hungary, the negatively conditioned foreign press has predicted the worst. This forecast had its roots in the propaganda needs of the well-connected Socialists and the gullibility of foreign journalist. The latter like to rely on leftists as their informers, rather than on the facts. Describing the new Premier Orbán as a »Fascist« ignores that his two-thirds majority represents the disillusionment with the cleptocratic Left which, ruling by the right of birth, resents its rejection. It also overlooks that there is, alongside unrepentant Communist, a »wrong right«. With its advocacy of a »Hungarists work-state« and the castration of undesirables, it has now become the government’s most significant and loudest opposition. No wonder, as this movement considers Orbán to be part of a »Zionist-KGB conspiracy« that must be »exterminated«. The story about a Nazi and anti-Semitic take-over through Orbán that the Socialists and their »Liberal« allies propagate holds true in one case only: if one agrees that anything that is not left of Joe Stalin is right-wing extremism. (...)
Ms. Radicova’s government is a coalition. The Hungarian party »Híd-Most« (the Magyar and Slovak words for »Bridge«, is part of the government. The new governments appear to inch toward cautious cooperation as fast as their peoples can be calmed to accept it. Meanwhile, the politically like-minded governors find that they assume comparable positions. Bratislava, like Budapest, has also asserted its economic independence. It did so by refusing -in a vote of 69:2- to pay a large contribution demanded by Brussels to bail out Greece. Even if the EU has a »no bail-out rule«, Slovakia’s resistance is called a »lack of solidarity« by the angered centralizers. Concurrently, Orbán and Romania’s Basescu seem to develop ties. Only a short time ago this would have been unthinkable, but they have appeared together at a free summer university in a Hungarian location but in Transylvania, that is, on Romanian soil. Not only did they not clash, in private they got along well. It would seem that Basescu might be moving as fast as his own radicals will let him toward the kind of autonomy for ethnics that correspond to western standards and practice. Therefore, the quality of the relationship is better than in the last ninety years. An appearance of Orban in a comparable setting in the Serbian province Voivodina/Vajdaság has also gone over well.”
