If you don't understand the term "European patriot", don't worry, you are not alone.
After close competition, Zsuzsa Koncz received the European Patriot Award this year. The singer was able to receive the award ahead of provocateur György Magyar and the young people of the United Student Front, which was founded in 2019 by outgoing EP representative and amateur bell ringer István Ujhelyi, and visual artist and book publisher András Sándor Kocsis. If you don't understand the term "European patriot", don't worry, you're not alone. (The fact that the prize has been received by such notables as the musician János Bródy, Béla Markó, the former president of the RMDSZ, and the famous pastor Gábor Iványi can be a clue in the deciphering.)
I have not been able to decipher why Zsuzsa Koncz became a "European patriot".
From his recent statements, which he used as a crutch, I only managed to find out that the poor man does not feel well in today's Hungary. He is not disappointed in the regime change, but in what came after it... "In the back-and-forth that characterizes the past fifteen years or so, in which it is almost impossible to find a solid point." Or at least he couldn't find it. (Before that, he found solid points in the Horn, Medgyessy, Gyurcsány, and Bajnai governments, but where is that now...)
A few years ago, in the ATV Egyenes beszéd program, the singer talked about how the Hungarian people and the Hungarian language had "degenerated"
- he didn't go into details (the astonished Egon just kept silent like a fish in a bag) - but maybe that's not why he became a "European patriot" now. I would rather guess that this recognition was addressed to Zsuzsi Koncz, who sang at the World Youth Meeting in Cuba in 1978, and who also played a European patriot in the National Peace Council. Eastern Europeans.
Featured image: MTI Photo / Zoltán Balogh
