Hungarians would rather be closer to the Austrians and Germans than to the Russians

Hungarians would turn to the Western world, while some in the governing party would turn to Russia, but all of them see Hungary’s future in NATO.

Policy Solutions survey

The majority thinks Hungary belongs in the West, but the proportion of those who would move closer to Russia has doubled compared to two years ago. Thursday’s edition of Policy Solutions looked at how the Hungarian public thinks.

In Hungary, 55 percent of those surveyed believe that the country belongs to the West and should continue to strive towards it in the future. Only 13 percent of Hungarians disagree with this, interestingly enough, among Fidesz voters this figure is 21 percent, Népszava.hu reports.

On the other hand, a quarter of Hungarians would prefer to move closer to Russia and further away from the European Union. But even so, there are still more people (45 percent) who would not like closer cooperation with Russia.

Leading power in the Central European region

The majority of Hungarians do not think that Hungary could be the leading power in the Central European region. So we should accept that we will not determine the future of the region.

The survey also looked at who Hungarians would build close relationships with. There were 17 countries to choose from, of which Hungarians would most likely build closer ties with Austria (90 percent), Germany (87 percent) and Croatia (86 percent). In contrast, China, South Korea, Ukraine and Russia ranked last.

Unsurprisingly, among Fidesz and Mi Hazánk supporters, Ukraine is the most unpopular, while Russia is the most unpopular among the opposition.

NATO or not NATO

The vast majority of those polled support Hungary remaining a member of NATO. In addition, more than two thirds agree that Finland and Sweden should also have a place in NATO.

A majority is in favour of the EU providing financial support to Ukraine, but they do not want Hungary to pay.

6 Comments

  1. Closer to if it comes to behaviour, attitude, religion, the (fake) rainbow hype, the lack of gas, high prices in shops, the euro, even higher taxes, no army, change in food habits (10 grams of meat a day), taking in millions of refugees and feed them, or? I am curious about what closer to means.
    If you want to be closer or belong to the West it is high time each person starts speaking English and German! Would be good if schools would teach both languages and even a third.
    If you want to be closer, belong to you need to give up on your own wishes, and dreams, fit in and forget about who you are, your country, nationality which is not a free choice but ordered by a few who reign the (new) world (order).

  2. Hungarian SOLIDARITY.
    Don’t let your Political allegiance – don’t let them DOMINATE – in this case this situation nor decision, in the process of making a choice, and if the West, your see – is the FUTURE – which this commentator SUPPORTS – that opinion, work together – in the RIDDING of Hungary – of the “Tyrant”- that he has become, the present Prime Minister of Hungary – Victor Orban.
    Not just Europe but Globally – Orban has DESTROYED – Pulverized the name of Hungary.
    DEMOCRACY has been cataclysmically abandoned, or erased in Core componentry of Democracy, by Orban and his Government -the Fidesz Political Party.
    Solidarity -retain by all means your Political allegiance, that’s the right of DEMOCRACY – but for our FUTURE – building relationships with Austria & Germany belonging in the West, and remaining a Member of the European Union – that would give light to our FUTURE.

  3. Those 25% of Hungarians who would move closer to Russia have been influenced by Fidesz propaganda which promotes friendship with the 21st century Hitler who rules Russia. It is thoroughly disgusting to see that a quarter of the Hungarian population sides with a barbaric country that is laying waste to Ukraine slaughtering thousands of men women and children, bombing cities, committing ecocide blowing up a dam that is now flooding dozens of towns and cities. This is Hungary’s “partner” according to Fidesz. It is a with a complete absence of any sense of morality that Hungarians could continue to side with Russia.

  4. Our Politicians talk up the importance of “defense”, yet shun Sweden’s accession to NATO for petty reasons – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfHSJfKCFS4

    AND our Politicians cannot get enough from China, South Korea and Russia. For all the right reasons, I’m sure. The agreements with companies from these countries would no doubt make for fascinating reading, if only we could!

  5. “Blah blah I fond Orban a great men and a white head.”

    You , HUNGARIANS WERE “NET” WHITE.

    From Britannica :(Languages of the world)

    “Racially the Uralic people present an unhomogeneous picture.In
    general
    they may be considered
    a bland of Europeans and Mongoloid types,with the more western
    groups(especially the Hungarians,Baltic-Finnic and Erzya Mardvin
    groups)
    being strongly European and those of the Urals primarily Mongoloid”.

    From ” De Administrado Imperio”by Constantine Porphyrogenitus
    (Byzantine
    Emperor,950AD)

    “These eight clans of the TURKS(Hungarians) do not obey their own
    particular princes…,They
    have for their first chief the prince who comes by succession of
    Arpad’s
    family…”

    From The Hungarian Chronicle(1095AD):

    “We (Hungarians) are descendants of the great Huns of Attila”.

    From “The Mongols” By Jeremiah Curtin

    “Five groups of Mongols have made themselves famous in Europe:The
    Huns
    with their mighty chief Attila,the Magyars,The Turks or Osmanli,the
    Mongol
    invaders of Russia…”

    From “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” By Edward Gibbon.

    “The(Hungarians) are distinguished by the Greeks under the proper and
    peculiar name of Turks,
    as descendants of that people who had conquered and reigned form China
    to
    the Volga (referring to the Mongols)”.

    From “The Cambridge Medieval History” edited by J.H.Hussey.

    “The form ovyypoi,from which are derived the various names current to
    this
    day among the people of Europe(Old Church Slavonic,UGRI;
    Russian,VENGRI;German,UNGARN;English,HUNGARIANS;French,HONGROIS;Italian,UN
    GHERESI,and so on)comes from the Turkic ethnic name ONOGUR meaning
    TEN
    OGUR”

    From “The Thirteenth Tribe” by Arthur Koestler.

    “We also hear of a fearful encounter which St.Cyril,the Apostle of
    the
    Slav,had with a Magyar horde in 860,on his way to Khazaria.He was
    saying
    his prayers when they rushed at him luporum more ululantes-HOWLING IN
    THE
    MANNER OF WOLVES”.

    From “Britannica”(Languages of the world).

    “Recent study indicates that it is posible to speak of a Uralic
    racial
    type,an intermediate stage between the European and the Mongoloid,the
    basic features of which are medium-dark to dark hair and eye
    colour,relatively small stature and often a concave bridge of the
    nose”.
    (Hungary is part of Uralic racial type).

    From “Britanica” Hungarian.

    “The proto-Hungarians were apparently an ethnic blend of
    Ugric(Mongoloid)
    and Turkish peoples living in western Siberia…The Hungarians were
    the
    scourge of Europe,raiding as far afield as Bremen,Orleans and
    Constantinople(the English word OGRE-a men eating man,hideous cruel
    man,is
    a corruption of HUNGAR,attests to their notoriety).

    From “1000 years of Hungary” By Emil Lengyel.

    “(Hungarian) Folklore speaks about NIMROD the giant,who had two
    sons,HUNOR
    and HAGAR.The former was the ancestor of the HUNS,and MAGOR was the
    ancestor of the MAGYARS.”

    “The experience the Magyars left with the Western world was so
    traumatic
    that even generations later people form the West saw the Hungarians
    as
    apocalyptic monsters. Bishop Otto of Freysing spoke of the exterior of
    the
    Hungarians as ‘ferocious’ at the time of the Crusades :(Their eyes
    are
    sunken,their stature is short,their behavior wild,their language
    barbarous,so that one can either accuse fate or marvel at divine
    patience
    for having permitted these monsters the possession of an enchanting
    land)”.

    From “History of Hungary” By Denis Sinor

    “Though, geographically speaking, of European origin, the Hungarians
    who
    settled in the Danube valley were,spiritually and materially,
    Asiatics,
    and belonged to the great Central Euroasiatic cultural family whose
    members lived dispersed form the Danube to China, from Persia and
    India to
    the Arctic. The Hungarian bows and arrows…were of exactly the same
    type
    as those used in Central Asia. As nomadic peoples generally do, the
    Hungarians disliked towns,and even houses,to which they preferred
    tents.
    According to Otto von Freisingen, as late as the middle of the
    twelfth
    century, summer and autumn were still spent under tents”.

    “It is, however quite certain that the Mongoloid type was well
    represented
    among them (Hungarians), and that they were, on the whole, of rather
    short
    stature, with short legs, bowed through continuous riding”.

    From George Kedrenos (12th century).
    (Describing the events which took place in 895).

    “The Emperor had sent the Patrician Skllerous to the Turks WHO were
    CALLED
    Hungarians
    (Oungroi) to convince them to cross the Danube and attack the
    Bulgarians…”
    (At this time the Hungarians used to live somewhere near Bug river,in
    a
    place called Etel-Kuzu).

    From John Zonnaras (12th century).
    (Describing the events of 895).

    “The Emperor convinced the Turks who lived near Danube and who ARE
    CALLED
    Hungarians
    (Oungroi) to start war against the Bulgars”.

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