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My website is created to comment on and present ideas, making an effort to explain its and bits of the Hungarian culture, politics, society and life conditions in general. The aim is to provide diverse information for those interested in knowing something about the seasoning, cutting and chewing Hungarian salami. You will notice that it is not the product it is about, it is more used as a metaphor well-known and applied in good and bad times in the Hungarian realities.

Friday March 20th, 2015, Hungary was rated to BB+ by Standard and Poor's Rating Services that made first news on the Hungarian Duna Television. Something to be proud of, apparently. Nice when it goes the right way...

Hungary has initiated free Sundays for employees in supermarkets and other similar businesses serving end customers. Protests are to be expected of course; and perhaps the need for increasing unemployment has been implied by shop owners.

The latest rather disturbing events are connected to migration. One would not have thought that this business would take the energy and efforts of the whole society, not quite understanding what is going on. Behind the invasion, or exodus targeting Europe - via Hungary as well - is in my opinion not a spontaneous, traditional or conservative migration process with aims of runnign away from various problems that the individual cannot cope with. The previously known reasons for fleeing; such as wars, ethnic, religious or other kinds of conflicts, persecution, discrimination, etc; causing free or forced migration does not apply in cases we witness in Europe today. Migration that takes its route via Hungary has in majority economic incitaments: people arriving from Afganistan, Pakistan or Oriental destinations are not refugees in the classical meaning.

They have paid economically interested entrepreneurs, who transport people to a destination of their choice and then leave them to continue on their own. The so called migrants who arrive to Hungary are more or less aiming to contginue to Western European countries that they have more information about. Hungary is also a target; on the Hungarian television I heard an Afgan migrant stating that he would gladly stay in Hungary, if he was permitted to stay. To see all those young people piling up on appointed sites, reception areas, camps, slowly occupying the streets amd parks of the cities and villages that they get stuck owing to the burocratic procedures taking time before getting answers if either to stay, to continue to other destinations or to be transported back to their home lands is appolling. In the meantime impatioans, frustration, and garbage mountins grow; resdidents' patience get lost, while thy begin to feel threatened by the uncontrollable masses that invade their dwellings. There is lack of sanitary accommodations, hundreds migrants invade daily homes of people asking for water, food or toilets. No wonder, under these circumstances, that sympathy for migrants get lost and people want to have a solution to a problem that is not theirs.

It is then rather upsetting to see news that are presented by Western (e.g. Swedish)  media - in contrast to the presentation of Mr.David Camerons on contributing to build a fence around Calais, or the silence around the use of water canons that Croatia and Slovania has directed against migrants at their borders. Jopurnalists criticise Hungary for building and defending fences at borders that are flooded over by thousands of immigrants on their way in uncertain quantities, with uncertain goals and to uncertain destinations. All caused by the inability of EU to follow up its own regulations and rules; finding a scape goat in the Hungarian leader, the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, who is blamed for every failure that EU has demonstrated in handling the case with the new exodus.

Hungary has undertaken certain regulatory instructions from the EU (within the Schgengen zones), whereas the country has tried to safeguard those regulations. This was not appreciated by the Western countries in the EU. Hungary has ever since been target of harsh criticism, with accusations of nationalism, xenophobia and inhumaine handling of 'refugees'. That is bullocks! And you know it! You can have a look at the pictures on Hungarian television that sends reports of the ongoing situation by the hour every day. You can then judge after what you see.

I am not suprised at all, and I support the Hungarian government's decision. Not that I believe that this would stop migration, but it would perhaps make it more legal (migrants might try to approach Hungary via the legal border passing points) and perhaps the people of Hungary might go back to their everyday businesses without disturbances.

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