Do not for a single moment forget the noble thoughts enshrined in your oath, Defence Minister Tibor Benkő said at the oath-taking ceremony of military officers held on 20 August, on St. Stephen’s Day, outside the Parliament Building in Budapest.
On 20 August 2019, on the occasion of Hungary’s national holiday, in the centre of the City of Chongqing in China, there was a spectacular light show organised by the Hungarian Consulate General in Chongqing.
On Wednesday morning in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Stephen Harper, former Prime Minister of Canada, Chairman of the International Democrat Union, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI on Wednesday.
According to the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office, in the past 30 years the Hungarian people have been given a chance to rebuild their alliances on the foundations of mutual respect and common interests. Gergely Gulyás spoke about this before a gala performance organised on the occasion of the national holiday on Tuesday in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca).
The thousand-year-old Hungarian nation sends the message to Europe that it can only survive if it preserves itself, and protects its borders, a Europe of nations and Christian freedom, the Justice Minister stated on Tuesday in Miskolc.
In Hungary freedom and peace are taken for granted, but they must be maintained, and the chief pledge of that is the Hungarian Defence Forces built upon the foundations of hundreds of years of military traditions, Deputy Minister Szilárd Németh, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence stressed on 20 August, Tuesday in Kőszeg at an event celebrating the establishment of the Hungarian State.
What was the Berlin Wall for the Germans was the Iron Curtain for us Hungarians.
The more than one thousand-year-old Hungarian state is one of Europe’s oldest existing states, and therefore it deserves respect. It is good to remind ourselves and “those who seek to take us to task” of this from time to time, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stated on Tuesday in Eger at the city celebration held in memory of King St. Stephen.
Hungary and the Hungarian nation owe their coming into being and survival to great achievements, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said on Friday in the Castle Garden Bazaar in Budapest where he handed over state decorations on the occasion of the celebration of the foundation of the state.
On Monday in Sopron, after he had talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about the need for strengthening Hungarian-German economic relations.