{{Hungary’s Minister of Human Resources has asked a journalist to return a state award he received Friday after Israel and the United States complained about disparaging remarks he had made earlier about Gypsies and Jews.}}<\/p>\n
Minister Zoltan Balog has said he made a mistake by giving the Mihaly Tancsis prize to Ferenc Szaniszlo, a former foreign correspondent who now has a show on right-wing Echo TV.<\/p>\n
In 2011, Hungary’s media authorities fined the station 500,000 forints ($2,200) because of Szanilo’s comments which, for example, said Gypsies \u2014 or Roma \u2014 were monkeys and social parasites.<\/p>\n
In a letter to Szaniszlo released on his website late Tuesday, Balog asked Szaniszlo to “kindly” return the award.<\/p>\n
The ambassadors of Israel and the United States have issued letters criticizing Balog’s original decision.<\/p>\n
Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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