Right Wing Disaster in Hungary - Hungary to add jobs, cut graft to fight far right -by PABLO GORONDI

Hungary's prime minister in waiting on Monday linked the striking weekend electoral surge of a militia-backed far-right party to corruption and unemployment and pledged to address those problems.

And the European Union expressed concern about the rise of the far right across the continent.

The far-right Jobbik party won 16.6 percent of the vote over the weekend. The party is tied to the Hungarian Guard, a group whose black uniforms are reminiscent of Hungary's pro-Nazi groups of the 1940s, and which is seen as a source of intimidation of Gypsies and other minorities.

The European Union used Jobbik's showing to sound the alarm about the rise of extremist parties across the continent. "We all have to work so that within the EU, populist, xenophobia, radical, nationalist, anti-European positions have as little support as possible," said Spain's state secretary for European affairs, Diego Lopez, speaking for the European Presidency.

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