Speaker: Hungary must stay on the path of economic growth, rising employment, birth rate

Christianity is what determines Hungarian and European culture, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér said in an interview with the weekly Szabad Föld, adding that “people must return to normality”.

Speaking ahead of the August 20 national holiday celebrating the founding of the Hungarian state, Kövér said Hungary had inherited from King St. Stephen “a stable state that is capable of reinventing itself and which has provided a framework for our lives and protected our national existence for over a millennium”.

He said Hungary was one of four European Union member states that have stood for over a thousand years with the same name and in the same territory where they were originally founded.

Kövér said that over the course of its history, others had always attempted to push Hungary “into one camp or another”. “It’s clear that in Europe today they’re trying to suck every sovereign state into a united states of Europe; an empire in which they wouldn’t let the different peoples have a say in their own fate,” he said.

Speaker: back to 2012-2021 path

The speaker said sovereignty was under threat today, adding that “sovereignty can work without democracy but democracy can’t exist without state sovereignty.”