Protests mar Hungary's national day celebrations

Hungary's national day on Thursday was meant to celebrate its struggle for independence in the 1848 revolution. The celebrations went ahead but when it came to television news images it was the violence between police and young far-right nationalists on the streets of Budapest which dominated.

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The BBC's Nick Thorpe was in the middle of it and he told Insight Central Europe about the young people who are making a tradition out of protest.

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