Homelessness is now illegal in Hungary
Now, wrap your head around this for a moment. You are homeless, police catches you, you are fined around 500 Euros, if you don’t have the money, you go to jail. I suppose if you did have such sum, most likely you wouldn’t be homeless, especially considering what 500 bucks represent in terms of income in Eastern Europe.
But it seems that logic is not fashionable in Europe these days. As much as part of the “European narrative” is based on this tired old trope of “enlightenment values” and “the heritage of reason” vs. “the hordes of foreign savages trying to take over the continent”, these values are only symbolic in paper. When they are supposed to be put into practice, this is the kind of legislation we get.
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