Conversation
Anti-Semitism and Nationalism. Why is Hungary making headlines?
With György Dalos (Hungary), György Dragomán (Hungary) and András Kovács (Hungary)
It's been barely two years since the national festivities in Budapest were marred by cries of "Gypsies into the Danube" and "filthy Jews". The radical right-wingers were thinking of the atrocities of 1944, when hundreds of Hungarian Jews were shot and thrown into the Danube. Are slogans like this now a part of everyday life in Hungary? Is the failure of the Communist dictatorship to come to terms with the past responsible for the current rise of anti-Semitism and nationalism in Hungary? Will the political triumph of the right-wing populists encourage the revival of old enmities?
Focus Eastern Europe
PRESENTER: Marina Neubert