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Varieties of Political Opinion about Hungary-Based Extremist Movements in Vojvodina, SerbiaIn 2024, Hungary’s Our Homeland Party, which has close ties to the radical 64 Counties Youth Movement, opened an office in the Serbian city of Subotica and announced a new membership recruiting initiative. Subotica is in Vojvodina, a region with a large Hungarian minority population. Our Homeland leaders announced they would sign up activists from the Hungarian minority community, but the Subotica office has closed and the recruiting initiative has not produced public demonstrations or other evidence of radicalization. The initiative’s apparent lack of success raises questions about whether the Hungarian minority is receptive to far-right political messaging. What do Hungarians in Serbia really think of far-right recruiters from next door? I will travel to Serbia to research responses to Hungary-based far-right activists. I will interview members of Serbia’s Hungarian minority in Subotica and villages in the Vojvodina region. I will describe what individuals say about Hungary-based extremist organizations, including the possibility that local Hungarian minorities may be “indifferent,” not actively aware of Our Homeland and its recruiting initiatives.
Dr. Marc Roscoe Loustau (www.marcloustau.org) is a cultural anthropologist and expert on Eastern European religion and politics. He is the author of the Substack newsletter, At the Edges with Marc Loustau. He has appeared on the BBC, BBC Australia, N1 Bosnia (CNN’s International affiliate), and France 24. He is a repeat guest on the Fast Politics Podcast with Molly Jong-Fast. He has been quoted in Newsweek, EUObserver, the Brussels Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and his own opinion articles and reported features have appeared in Balkan Insight, The Conversation, Inkstick, the Christian Science Monitor, America: The Jesuit Review, La Croix International, the Christian Century, The Tablet, and the National Catholic Reporter.
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