Hungarian justice minister says no to the European empire
Hungarians “say no to the concept of European empire” and are “insistent on keeping their freedom won through the sacrifice of blood”, Justice Minister Judit Varga said at a commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the 1848-49 revolution and freedom fight in Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sfantu Gheorghe), Romania, on Wednesday.
Varga said the interests of Hungarians living inside the country and outside of its borders “come first”. She warned that a “hegemony of opinion” is taking shape in Europe and said the European Union is “uniting on the matter of self-censorship, not diversity”.
She added that Brussels’ response to the war in Ukraine has “failed”. Hungarians today, as their predecessors in 1848, want peace, freedom and understanding, she said.
Lord mayor: ‘Budapest is and will remain a republic’
“Budapest is and will remain a republic,” Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said at the Freedom March, organised in the capital on the 15 March national holiday marking the 175th anniversary of the 1848-49 revolution and freedom fight on Wednesday.
In a speech, Karácsony said the republic has been “removed from the name of our country and removed from the operation of the state, too”. He added that the republic “remains in free municipal councils, in the work of civil organisations, in the movements of teachers and students, in the Chamber of Physicians, in the struggles of defenders of the city and defenders of the law”.
Pointing to local elections in 2024, he urged “free cities” to be protected and pressed for their numbers to grow. He warned against allowing Hungary to become “a pariah” in Europe. He said the “tragedy of 1848” originated in part from the truth that Europe’s peoples can only be free together.
“Whoever is wearing a cockade”, he said, referring to ribbon rosette of the national colours adopted by the 1848 revolutionaries, “must also declare freedom and peace for Ukraine, Hungary and all peoples”.
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Source: MTI
4 Comments
HEAR HEAR! Hungary suffered for almost fifty years(!) in the straitjacket of communism, and for what? So that it now relinquish its freedom and sovereignty to a control-freaky globalist-socialist cabal, which presumes to erase Hungary’s history and fundamentally alter its character? Who in their right mind want Budapest to look and feel like, say, Paris or Berlin (and I mean the Pairs or Berlin of today, not the romanticized versions from the 1980s)?!? Hell to the naw-naw!
@Michael Steiner:
Sir, you middle names wouldn’t be Joseph McCarthy by any chance? 😀
– I feel some McCarthyism “radiating” from you comment.
There is no “European Empire”. Sounds lovely and incendiary for the Base, though!
If people recall – in 2003 we had the referendum on joining the European Union, the vast majority (84 percent) supported membership and, therefore, we joined in 2004.
Fact: our rights are limited by the rights of others. We signed up to a host of treaties and international agreements – including the EU, so we are obligated to abide by them.
https://internationallaw.uslegal.com/international-treaties-and-agreements/
Wake up Hungarian people! Do you want to be a part of Europe and NATO or not? Can not Orban just leave EU and NATO? We taxpayer who feed you are a bit tired! Hungary is not important for the rest of Europe.