Dr. Brenner Koloman, a representative of Jobbik, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in mid-April that Jobbik wants to join the EPP.
According to the article, the 52-year-old Germanist from Hungary's German-speaking minority is an important "thought leader" of Jobbik. The party's new "statement of principle" is largely from his pen. He portrays Jobbik as "Hungary's only true people's party", in the tradition of Adenauer, De Gasperi and Schuman. They are, as they say, the "ideological forerunners" of the Europe and Transatlantic Party.
Katalin Novák, the state secretary responsible for family and youth affairs, could not leave the article without comment, therefore - as she indicated on her Facebook page:
"I informed the publisher of one of the largest German newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, about the cooperation between the Hungarian left and the extreme right. Interestingly, the European press, which usually expresses concern about anti-Semitism, observes the events in Hungary without comment. Moreover, an article was recently published in FAZ, which envisaged Jobbik joining the EPP. That's why I sent the publisher a compilation of the openly anti-Semitic expressions of Jobbik representatives. I wonder what they will do next.”
