Monday, April 12, 2010
Good news from Hungary
Hungary held elections yesterday, and the sort-of-Populist party Fidesz won an absolute majority! A hard-line nationalist group picked up 18% of the seats, leaving the formerly ruling Socialists in the dust.
Hungary has always been an intelligent, innovative and productive country. Under Soviet rule, Hungary was allowed to slide gradually away from orthodoxy because the Bloc depended on its industries. And then in 1989 Hungary started the cascade of leaks to the West that finally undermined the Berlin Wall.
The new government has to clean up an economic mess, largely created by the current ruling coalition which buys into the Gramscian nonsense of "free trade" and "international banking". (The current PM is an economist, thus a slave to Wall Street's commands.)
Hungary has one big advantage: its currency hasn't yet been absorbed into the EU monstrosity, so it's still free to make its own economic decisions.
The new leader seems to understand sovereignty:
Polistra hopes Orban will strain relations with EU even more. Maximal "strain", i.e. sovereignty, will yield maximal success for a sensible nation. ¶ 5:12 AM
Hungary held elections yesterday, and the sort-of-Populist party Fidesz won an absolute majority! A hard-line nationalist group picked up 18% of the seats, leaving the formerly ruling Socialists in the dust.
Hungary has always been an intelligent, innovative and productive country. Under Soviet rule, Hungary was allowed to slide gradually away from orthodoxy because the Bloc depended on its industries. And then in 1989 Hungary started the cascade of leaks to the West that finally undermined the Berlin Wall.
The new government has to clean up an economic mess, largely created by the current ruling coalition which buys into the Gramscian nonsense of "free trade" and "international banking". (The current PM is an economist, thus a slave to Wall Street's commands.)
Hungary has one big advantage: its currency hasn't yet been absorbed into the EU monstrosity, so it's still free to make its own economic decisions.
The new leader seems to understand sovereignty:
[New Prime Minister] Viktor Orban has told farmers that foreigners will never be able to own agricultural land as long as his government is in power.
Analysts say that if implemented, that pledge could strain relations with the European Union. Free movement of capital is one of the Union's key principles.
Polistra hopes Orban will strain relations with EU even more. Maximal "strain", i.e. sovereignty, will yield maximal success for a sensible nation. ¶ 5:12 AM
