Mitteleuropa morass

The case for civilisation is all the more pressing as it takes a battering.  Hungary is pursuing the hardline stance that was all too predictable from the power-hungry Viktor Orban and his on-the-egde-of-the-centre-right government, with the noxious but powerful minority interest of (Kremlin-funded) virtual neo-Nazis Jobbik.  Jobbik has such influence it even runs a television station but fired one female news reporter not for kicking immigrants but being filmed doing so.  And so the 'migrants', 'refugees', however they may be categorised, suffer largely through no fault of their own, Syrians especially caught between the rock and a hard place of Assad and Daesh.  The 'wall' Hungary has built with its border with Serbia is now being extended to fellow EU member Romania. 
Of course, there is natural bad blood between Magyars and Romanians over possession of Translyvania, where exist a substantial Magyar minority and some military theorists even thought possible a war between the two in the early 1990s once freed from Moscow's shackles.  Hungary is not best pleased with Serbia's possession of Vojvodina, north of the Danube.  Croatia was also stripped from Hungary under the terms of the 1920 Treaty of Trianon and as with hydraulics, you close off one entrance will merely redirect to another place.  Thus, though Croatia has a small border with Serbia, it has a considerably longer border with Hungary.  With this nationalist government in Budapest, maybe part of the problem stems from Hungary angry at places where it ruled, entirely or partially, not doing what it wants.
Football gave us a warning with racist fans in parts of Eastern Europe when English teams played in places like Slovakia.  These countries' governments are now the ones taking the harshest line with the migrant issue.  It all resembles that school rhyme: Austria felt a little bit Hungary/ Dipped a bit of turkey into a bit of Greece/ Long-legged Italy kicked poor Sicily/ Into the Mediterranean Sea.