European Union Affairs Minister Bóka said “European solutions” were necessary to strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, ones that were supported by cultural, political and historical traditions, in a presentation delivered at a meeting of the heads of the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Eurochambres) in Budapest on Wednesday.
Hungary maintains a zero-tolerance policy against anti-Semitism, “including anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism and anti-Israel sentiment,” the minister for European Union affairs said in Budapest on Wednesday.
János Bóka told a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jews that while holding the Council of the EU’s rotating presidency, Hungary will see it as a priority to cooperate with member states, EU institutions and European Jewish communities to further European Jewish communities and Jewish heritage.
At a time when Europe is facing rising anti-Semitism and intolerance, cross-border and cross-community cooperation against all forms of hate is especially important, Bóka said.
At the commemoration held at the Holocaust Memorial Centre in downtown Budapest and organised by the Hungarian presidency of the EU, Andor Grósz, the head of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities Mazsihisz, said the centre showed examples of what discrimination and hate led to. “We learned the lesson at the cost of 6 million lives, we need a lot of effort to vanquish anti-Semitism,” Grosz said.
Minister calls for ‘European solutions’ to strengthen competitiveness
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The Real Person!
The Real Person!
Maybe they only need to ban any anti-russian “sentiment” to complete the full authoritarian government you have. I am against any kind of injustice, but some governments they just see one side of the history.
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The Real Person!
Are you antisemitic Jose, is that why your veiled objection?
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The Real Person!
When you find out what is happening in Germany, for example, it really makes you wonder why the liberal establishment attacked Hungary for so long as being a bastion of anti-Semitism. If I was Jewish, I’d definitely feel much safer in Budapest than in Berlin, or Paris nowadays.
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Dear Maria, i am not anti semitic, i am pro peace, as your beloved leader says. the question is, do you want to allow netanyahu to continue is masacra agains children? when all this Bs finishes, he will he the first to go to jail due to crimes against humanity, that is not anti semitic, or anti zionist, that is the law.
You are always talking about law abiding people and BS, so, the law is applied equally to to everyone, not only the one where your ideology is aligning to, BTW if you have some respect for your country, you should be asking the resignation of Balasz Orban. nothing more disrespectful that his awful comments about the Hungarian revolution