Is anti-Roma violence becoming mainstream in contemporary Europe?

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On the point: Misusing the national card

"We [Hungary] are moving toward a one-party ruling system in which the prime minister and his little circle are trying to sell 19th-century romantic nationalism... Many people are buying that. It is true that normal national ideas were missing during the communist period. But the prime minister is now misusing the national card." - Peter Balazs, a former Hungarian foreign minister.

This again is hyperbole, yes the prime minister is increasingly dictatorial but as with other prime ministers that have made power grabs in modern democracies his popularity is plummeting.
[quote=reuters]Having lost nearly half its supporters since the 2010 election [where he got two thirds of the vote], public support for Orban's Fidesz party dropped by another two percentage points to 16 percent in January from December, an Ipsos poll published last week found. Of those polled, 57 percent said they had no party preference and a staggering 84 percent said the country was on the wrong track.[/quote][[http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/16/hungary-orban-idUSL6E8CF0HS20120116]]

Yes, because... Misusing the national card

 

No, because...

"We [Hungary] are moving toward a one-party ruling system in which the prime minister and his little circle are trying to sell 19th-century romantic nationalism... Many people are buying that. It is true that normal national ideas were missing during the communist period. But the prime minister is now misusing the national card." - Peter Balazs, a former Hungarian foreign minister.

 

This again is hyperbole, yes the prime minister is increasingly dictatorial but as with other prime ministers that have made power grabs in modern democracies his popularity is plummeting.

reuters
Having lost nearly half its supporters since the 2010 election [where he got two thirds of the vote], public support for Orban's Fidesz party dropped by another two percentage points to 16 percent in January from December, an Ipsos poll published last week found. Of those polled, 57 percent said they had no party preference and a staggering 84 percent said the country was on the wrong track.
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  1. ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/16/hungary-orban-idUSL6E8CF0HS20120116

 
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