A diver feeds fishes in a freshwater aquarium at the Lake Tisza Ecocentre in Poroszlo, Hungary, May 23, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
POROSZLO, Hungary (Reuters) - More than a million tourists have flocked to the village of Poroszlo in eastern Hungary since 2012, when Europe's largest freshwater aquarium opened with 6.5 million euros of financing from the European Union.
While Poroszlo's residents recognise the benefits of EU membership, some of them see Brussels as an external force that imposes all kinds of demands on them -- such as how money coming from the bloc should be spent and whether Hungary should accept Muslim immigrants.
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