receive state support for their disabled children. Molnár also provoked debate when he declared in a television interview a month later that he was a Hungarian nationalist and did not want foreign interests, especially Jewish interests, having increased influence in the country.54 In the early 2000s, attention was drawn to the fact that a commercial radio station, Pannon Rádió, regularly broadcast programmes with attacks on Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals. The Hungarian radio authority issued fines of HUF 2.3 million (or about EUR 7,500) and threatened to withdraw the station's broadcasting license. When the radio authority decided to also review the state radio, it was discovered that the weekly political news programme Vasárnapi Újság repeatedly conveyed anti-Semitic and xenophobic messages. The discovery was not considered more serious, however, than that the responsible editor could keep his job. 55 Lahav (2009) 55 Bernáth, Miklósi & Mudde (2005), p. 90 54
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