Hungary is Europe's tinderbox after EP elections - Belousovova

THE SLOVAK National Party (SNS) is convinced that the long-term strategic goals of Hungary are getting 'terrifyingly real' after the re-election of Viktor Orban as leader of Hungarian opposition right-wing party Fidesz and the victory of Hungarian extremists in European Parliament elections, SNS vice-chair Anna Belousovova said on Sunday.

Belousovova said Hungary has become 'Europe's tinderbox' after the EP elections. "The request to discharge the Trianon Treaty and Benes decrees, the territorial claims towards Ukraine and others, which the Hungarian extremists want to present in the European Parliament clearly show that the dangerous game with the Hungarian card has started," Belousovova said, adding that Jobbik got three members and Fidesz 14 MEPs.

According to her, the gloomiest prognoses that SNS has been talking about are coming true. "It's a game not only endangering the stability in central Europe, which could end up in another Kosovo. This situation scaringly resembles the period before WWII," she said.

SNS is calling on all MEPs representing Slovakia to work together and to co-ordinate their steps by defending the national and state interests of Slovakia. Especially, she said she would like to call on SDKU-DS and KDH to do so, as they "share the same EP faction [People's Party – EPP] with Fidesz."

According to her, the clear answer to growing Hungarian extremism should be the passing of a European Union resolution dismissing any kind of requests for border amendments within Europe and denouncing extremism. The sole SNS MEP Jaroslav Paska would promote the passing of such a resolution, Belousovova added.