The 20th of August is Hungary’s founding king St. Stephen‘s Day. It’s also the day of the Foundation of Hungary and “the day of the new bread”. St. Stephen (Szent István király ) who was born in about 975 and he died on the 15th of August, 1038, led Hungary into the Christian church and he established the institutions of a feudal kingdom and of the church. He was canonized on the 20th of August, 1083 and therefore the 20th of August is his feast day in Hungary.
This Hungarian public holiday is always celebrated with a half-hour fireworks display on the banks of the Danube in the evening. Watch this year’s spectacular fireworks below. The music was made for this occasion by Ghymes.
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 13/09/2018(For some reason must start a new thread…)
No, I did not forget “Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia”.
From that list Croatia is a possible problem corruption-wise, but far better than my previous list of “Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and maybe even Chechia”.
The EU member states outside EPPO now are:
Hungary
Ireland
Poland
Sweden
United Kingdom
The last one has no reason, but the rest should be ‘punished’ (by lower EU-funds) for not accepting this federal oversight.
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 13/09/2018We haven’t signed up for any kind of “federation”.
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 16/09/2018Correct, but you can only huff and puff if a majority EU-member states creates a stronger cooperation and rewards themselves for that. You are either on the band-wagon or eats its dust, similar to the Euro-area.
Seems like Socialist-led Romania will come up for criticism from the European Parliament in October – I assume all Fidesz MEPs will be their best defenders, then all criticism is bad…at the same time Hungary will welcome both Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen-zone, so all those border-post and fences to Romania can finally be removed, and refugees walk freely over there.
NB. Hungary has historically been positive since day one for Romania to join the Schengen-zone, its acceptance has been stopped by Germany, Finland and the Netherlands for several years.
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 16/09/2018It’s Greece, Italy, Slovakia, etc. which are “eating the dust” from the Euro. We’re not going to join it.
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 20/09/2018My personal experience is that the ethnic Hungarians we had as workers from Slovakia in Budapest disappeared rather fast after Slovakia introduced the Euro – they lost money working for the Hungarian Forint…
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 03/09/2018It was not always on August 20, then until 1687, 20 August was St. Stephens feast day and thus became Hungary’s national day, even after the feast day itself was switched around in the calendar a few times. In 1945 Communist leaders prohibited celebrations due to its religious nature and in 1950 it was changed to Constitution Day.
It was reinstated as a celebration of St. Stephen in 1990 by the Hungarian Parliament, something which is debated today, then the Hungarian Republic was more born on March 15, 1848, which should be more seen as the birth of Modern Hungary in Europe.
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 04/09/2018If it’s “debated” then it’s debated only by the post-Commies/left-liberals… and they really don’t matter.
Have you seen the latest polls? 😀
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 06/09/2018Polls in Hungary 2018 is as interesting 1988…
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 07/09/2018Those grapes are probably sour anyway, said the fox. 🙂
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 11/09/2018Like Austria’s Kurz alleged support for Fidesz, now when even they will vote against Orban…Like in 1984, Kurz is now suddenly ‘a Soros-agent’ in Hungarian State Media…
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 12/09/2018The EP kangaroo court delivers an even higher electoral support for Orbán than what he’s enjoying now. And this support is already very high.
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 12/09/2018That ‘EP kangaroo court’ is what Fidesz signed up for when Hungary joined the EU….
How does it feel to be first?
How long before EPP throws Fidesz out, then a majority EPP-MEPs voted YES, a minority ABSTAINED and just a few supported Fidesz?
Here is the final vote roll-call:
https://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-the-situation-in-hungary-motion-for-resolution-vote-text-as-a-whole.html
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 12/09/2018I’m not bothered and it’s going to feel great to see the polls next month.
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CarpathianViking (@CarpathViking)
/ 13/09/2018Yes, they will be great of course, then I actually saw a report from Hungary on German ZDF and they had met this Fidesz-supporter who got a chock because “in Brussels they wanted to use a nuclear bomb against Hungary”.
With that kind of supporters you cannot go wrong…except when the EU-funds dry up, then what was remarkable in the debate in Strasbourg was the repeated allegations of Orban’s personal gain from EU-funds – it is now stated totally open and given Fidesz refuses to accept the new EU Prosecutor Office in Hungary, there will be a great majority for reducing EU-funds to well-known corrupted countries like Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and maybe even Chechia.
That you will be bothered about.
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Leto مؤدّب
/ 13/09/2018You forgot to mention Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. 🙂
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