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Daily News Hungary Daily News Hungary · 23/01/2022
· Politics

Viktor Orbán: Hungarians identify as a “nation of culture”

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“Hungarians are in cultural expansion, regardless of the crisis” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening of the House of Hungarian Music in Budapest on Saturday, the Day of Hungarian Culture.

Orbán said Europe is going through “rough times” as waves of the pandemic and of migration come one after the other, and the continent’s political, military, economic and cultural weight wanes compared to the rest of the world.

While the pandemic has closed or scaled down cultural institutions elsewhere, in Hungary, it is “in full bloom”, he added.

He noted that Hungary is tied in the European Union, for the highest share of government spending on culture, adding that Hungarians identify as a “nation of culture”.

Read also: The House of Hungarian Music has been inaugurated – PHOTOS, PROGRAMMES

Orbán said Hungarians “can feel at home” in the building, the “excellent work” of the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.

He added that the building doesn’t “force itself on its surroundings” in Budapest’s City Park, but “fits in organically, conforms and harmonises” with it.

Orbán said opposition politicians’ stand against the Liget Budapest project, which aims to rehabilitate the capital’s City Park, would not be forgotten. It isn’t by chance, he added, that “the mayor had other commitments today”.

He said the left wing had “defended something that was run-down”, while “opposing something that is beautiful, world-class and inspiring”.

Orbán said he would resist the “temptation for political revenge” on the Day of Hungarian Culture, but added that “we’ll take care of them in April”, referring to the upcoming general election.

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He acknowledged the Liget project is “half-finished” and said voters could “finally bring an end to the debate in April”.

Orbán said political debates in Europe today that pit “globalisation against Christian heritage, the bureaucracy in Brussels against national pride, immigration against family support, and gender politics against the protection of children”,  put high culture and its mission in a new light.

The conflict, he said, is not between West and East, but between West and West, and it poses the threat of “cultural alienation”.

“We want to keep Europe a whole, and we must do something against cultural alienation,” he added.

He said high culture commands respect and attention in the “Babel-like turmoil” of today.

“If there is a higher purpose which music – Hungarian music, too – can achieve, then it is this,” he added.

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Source: MTI

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3 Comments

  1. Mario says:
    24/01/2022 at 08:14

    Like all despots of all times, V.O. lives in a parallel reality, a reality which he himself elaborates and that only exists in his own mind. Poor man.

  2. Gwen Mcclelland says:
    24/01/2022 at 13:14

    Victor Orban and Vladimir Putin put their citizens first. That’s what democracy is.
    They are doing the right thing. Our politicians aren’t.

  3. Anonymous says:
    25/01/2022 at 12:50

    That’s right Gwen. Democracy is while votes are still being ‘counted’ Putin has already claimed victory. Of course anyone who speaks out against the ‘democratic’ regime………..

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