Year of Culture started in the Carpathian Basin

The government is launching the Year of Culture in the Carpathian Basin in 2025, making all government-funded cultural programmes available in the region, Minister of Culture and Inovation Balazs Hanko said on Friday.

Speaking before the annual meeting of cultural institution heads, Hankó said a new ticket called ‘Shared Treasure’ would be introduced from the summer, offering a discount to Hungarian families visiting cultural institutions. He said several institutions including the Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca and the Csokonai National Theatre of Debrecen would be added to the category of culturally strategic institutions in 2025.

Hungarian Speaker marks Culture Day in Serbia

We believe that Hungarians are not a nation of demise but one of survival in the Carpathian Basin,” László Kövér, the speaker of parliament, said in northern Serbia’s Senta (Zenta) on Friday, at a ceremony marking the Day of Hungarian Culture. “Hungarians have a mission; they represent strength together, and they are weak when apart,” Kövér said.

“The throb of Hungarian vitality in the Carpathian Basin is not measured in decades but in centuries … the Hungarian spirit will always make up for the lives lost through history and even increase the number of Hungarians,” he said. Referring to ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina, Kövér said it was “the Hungarian nation’s strongest community”, which survived three wars in the 20th century, thriving in their own homeland.

“The strength of Vojvodina Hungarians is not in their number but in their soul,” he added. In his address, the house speaker affirmed the Hungarian government’s commitment to providing assistance to ethnic kin “so that nobody should leave their homeland for reasons of livelihood”. At the ceremony, Kövér was awarded the golden plaque of the Vojvodina Hungarian Cultural Association in recognition for his efforts to strengthen the ethnic Hungarian community and unity within the Hungarian nation.

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