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.”

Kövér said the idea dominating European public thinking today that “every person is a universe of their own” made a mockery of “the Christian fundamental principle that man is a unique creation of God to whom he has given freedom and dignity”.

“Those who argue from the premise of unlimited individual freedom don’t acknowledge any kind of rule,” the speaker said. “And that can lead to anarchy, in other words mob rule.”

He said the 21st century could be won by making up for the lives lost in the wars and dictatorships of the 20th century. Hungary, he said, had to stay on the path it had been on between 2012 and 2022 which had been “characterised by continuous economic growth, rising employment, a rising birth rate and cultural prosperity”.

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