Parliament Speaker: 15 Years of Success in Hungarian National Policy

László Kövér

In terms of national policy, the last fifteen years have been the most fortunate and successful period in the 105 years since Trianon (Treaty of Trianon —editor’s note), emphasized László Kövér, Speaker of the National Assembly, on Thursday evening in Vienna at a conference held on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the Kaláka Club.

“The national government, building on the solidarity of the majority of Hungarian society, was able to provide both moral strength and material support to Hungarians abroad in their struggle to preserve their communities and identity,” he said. He added that another political outcome of the past 15 years is that “we Hungarians have finally been able to confirm that we are not alone in our struggle to preserve our national identity and the familiarity of our homeland.”

László Kövér emphasized that today, the protection of national identity has become a matter of destiny for all national majorities in Europe, and the experiences of Hungarian communities also show this:

In Europe today, all national majorities are being alienated from their homeland by various means, just as Hungarian communities outside Hungary in the Carpathian Basin have often experienced over the past century.”

According to the Speaker of the National Assembly, thanks to the current Hungarian government, it is possible to effectively support the efforts of Hungarians living abroad to preserve their identity: “Since 2010, we have had a Hungarian government that not only has a sense of national responsibility, but also the political will and financial resources to truly usher in a new era in Hungarian national policy.”

László Kövér also spoke about the role of the Kaláka Club in Vienna, which “had to provide a community anchor for those Hungarians who had crossed the country’s borders but wanted to remain Hungarian in Austria, which they had chosen as their temporary or permanent second home.”

Lőrinc Nacsa, State Secretary for National Policy at the Prime Minister’s Office, emphasized that the challenges of being a minority also create new opportunities: “If we are members of a community, we no longer have to face difficulties alone, so preserving our Hungarian identity is not an individual task, but a shared one.”

Via MTI; Featured photo: MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd

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