Europe’s peoples should “see and
understand that Europe will have no free life without its Christian culture”,
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said during a state celebration of the anniversary
of Hungary’s 1848 revolution in front of Budapest’s National Museum.
“Unless we protect
our Christian culture we will lose Europe and Europe will no longer belong to
Europeans,” Orban insisted. He added that Christianity was equally
important for a free Hungary and warned that “all of us would lose our
freedom in a liberal empire”.
“Nobody can be free if they are subjects of an
empire rather than children of a free nation. Europeans can only be happy if
they can decide on their own fate and on the future of their
nation”, Orban added. The ideal of freedom “is rooted in
Christianity because all people and all nations are equal before God,” the
prime minister said.
Orban welcomed
Polish participants in the celebrations, and said that “without Poland
Hungary would not be free and Europe could not have been re-united”.
“When they attack Poland from Brussels, they attack
the whole of central Europe, including us, Hungarians”.
“Our message to the empire-builders seeking to
extend their shadow over central Europe is that they will always need to
consider Hungarian-Polish ties,” he said.
“Each
year we renew our oath to God that we will insist on freedom and reject
subordination; the nation’s common oath means that each Hungarian will stand by
other Hungarians and all Hungarians will stand by Hungary,” Orban said.
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