Monday, February 27, 2012

Call for relaunch of RFE Hungarian

An opinion piece in the Washington Post calls for the re-start of Radio Free Europe’s Hungarian service. The article is jointly written by Mark Palmer (US ambassador to Hungary 1986-1990), author Miklos Haraszti (OCSE representative on freedom of the media 2004-2010) and Charles Gati (professorial lecturer in Russian & Eurasian studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies).

According to the three, “With the fall of Hungary’s Western-style, pluralistic democracy, the time is right for the United States to reinstate Radio Free Europe’s Hungarian-language broadcasts.” They go on to argue that “While Hungary is a member of both NATO and the European Union, it is at risk of becoming a constitutional dictatorship and a pariah in the West.”
(Source : Media Network Weblog)

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