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 ...
... Union’s summit at the height of the crisis two years ago. Asylum seekers have since flooded Western Europe like Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
The news about the court ruling vividly illustrates the current state of the EU and thus merits a closer analysis.
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Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary and Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia
Firstly
, we are talking about
illegal
migrants from Africa and the Middle East. Would-be migrants in the rest of the world (including Russia) spend months knocking on doors of EU member state consulates ...
... question begs: at what point does drawing parallels between 1956 and 2015 – between the Hungarians and the Syrians or the Afghans – fall apart, given the religious and socioeconomic differences between those groups?
A Role Reversal – Migration to Hungary
For decades, the word “migration” in Hungary was associated with people leaving the country, rather than the other way around. The lack of well-paid jobs has forced
the younger generation to move to developed Western countries
: there ...