Before delving into the stories, two caveats. One, this outreach is often happening with the implicit or, in some cases, tacit approval of the ruling elites in each country. Minorities are a burden—best out of mind, out of sight. 2/
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And two, these stories also reflect on the difficulties of doing ethnic politics. If allying with the local majority doesn’t work or doesn’t pay off, your only hope is the “home abroad.” That makes you dependent on your new patron. 3/
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The largest sums of money have been sent to Transylvania to renovate churches, build sports complexes, but also to take over media and turn them into supporters. This is how you build a patronage network. 4/https://balkaninsight.com/2020/01/30/living-like-in-hungary-orban-bankrolling-romania-ethnic-parallelism/ …
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This push, together with the absence of the
#Romanian state, is resulting in the creation of parallel institutions and ultimately, societies. Familiar? 5/Prikaži ovu nit -
It could certainly be. Orban’s tentacles are in the Balkans, too. In
#Serbia, the local ethnic leader reached out to Fidesz before 2010, taking VMSZ in a more authoritarian direction. 6/https://balkaninsight.com/2020/01/30/for-serbias-hungarians-more-forints-and-a-tamed-media/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
Even though, in both countries, ethnic minorities and their politicians are working against their very own interests when they embrace the
#Hungarian government’s antiliberal politics. If anything, they should know what it feels like to be the other. 8/pic.twitter.com/KySlAWxcI0
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And finally, while there is only a tiny community of
#Hungarians in#Slovenia, the third article in the series is worth reading too. It shows a small microcosm of the authoritarian, patronage-building tactics of the#Hungarian government. x/https://balkaninsight.com/2020/01/30/in-a-hungarian-corner-of-slovenia-a-homegrown-orban/ …Prikaži ovu nit
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