Hungary: Far-right burns EU flag and demands exit from bloc
Far-right activists in Hungary have burned the EU flag, calling for the country’s exit from the bloc.
Some 2,000 demonstrators from the extremist Jobbik party gathered outside the European Commission offices in Budapest. They are angry that cash-strapped Hungary is under pressure to ditch new legislation that Brussels says may violate European laws and principles.
“Not only us but many other countries now believe they could be better off outside the EU and then they would not have got into this situation,” said protester Gyorgy Lillik, 63.
The EU has raised the prospect of suspending vital funding unless Hungary changes its controversial laws on the central bank and judiciary.
http://www.euronews.net/2012/01/15/hungary-far-right-burns-eu-flag-and-demands-exit-from-bloc/
Jobbik, The Movement for a Better Hungary, commonly known as Jobbik, is a Hungarian radical nationalist political party. Jobbik has been denoted by scholars, different press outlets and its political opponents as fascist, neo-fascist, anti-Semitic, anti-Roma and homophobic. The party describes itself as "a principled, conservative and radically patriotic Christian party", whose "fundamental purpose" was the protection of "Hungarian values and interests."
Jobbik rejects the common classification of the political spectrum in left and right. It prefers a distinction of political parties based on their stance towards globalisation. On this scheme, the party sees itself as patriotic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobbik