Speaker: Hungarian nation’s existence in continuous threat

The key to the longevity of the Visegrád Group has been its members’ ability to focus on issues that are of a shared interest and on which there is a chance for agreement, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér said at the All-Hungarian University Students’ Camp in Satoraljaujhely, in north-eastern Hungary, on Monday.

The cooperation between Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia has been most useful in giving the four countries the needed political weight within the European Union thanks to central Europe’s economic competitiveness, Kövér said in response to a question after his lecture.

This, he added, also required the economic and infrastructural development of a north-south European axis in addition to the existing west-east economic links. The five-day All-Hungarian University Students’ Camp is being attended by more than 300 young Hungarians from 18 countries, its organiser, the Rákóczi Association, said. It offers lectures, trips and sports and cultural programmes, they said.

Kövér also said that the Hungarian government aims to secure the existence of the Hungarian nation because Hungarians are in a continuous threat. The cabinet would like the Hungarian communities abroad to survive and thrive. Without them, the homeland does not have a chance. He added that the nation’s existence is under a continuous threat because of the new world in which war is not unknown an phenomenon. The consequences of the ongoing war in Ukraine will be like the Ottoman rule in Hungary between 1526 and 1699, 444.hu wrote.