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Vegel, Laszlo
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Laszlo Vegel on minorities in south eastern Europe
Laszlo Vegel, a Hungarian novelist from the Serb province of Vojvodina, calls for a less active state and a more active civil society in the debate about minorities in former Yugoslavia. "Unfortunately, hostility towards minorities and anti-Semitism are deeply rooted in this part of Europe. Governments, political parties and politicians can only partly overcome these historical animosities. However, the dialogue about the Hungarian minority in Serbia, for example, is only being conducted at a party level… Up to now, financial support from the mother country has been aimed only at guaranteeing the survival of the minority as a closed community. No one bothers about things like the creation of competitive media, institutions, networks, citizens' initiatives or a modern set of cultural values for the self-representation of the minority."
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Laszlo Vegel on criticism of globalisation and populists
Hungarian author Laszlo Vegel of Novi Sad (now Serbia) looks at how the nationalists and right-wing populists of Eastern Europe are adopting the arguments of the 1968 protest movement and the anti-globalisation movement. "The similarity is misleading. The criticism of the West and anti-Americanism of people like Peter Handke is being formulated within a completely different cultural context: in Western Europe anti-Americanism is part of democratic culture, while in Eastern Europe it's simply used in the rhetoric of populist movements… Eastern European conservatives who lack genuine conservative traditions are exploiting old anti-Western populism. Their criticism of globalisation is not aimed at protecting democratic rights but at protecting the autarchy of the nation state… The critical spirit of Western Europe is basically incompatible with the populists of Eastern Europe, but unfortunately this supposed meeting of minds is making an impact."
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