We have twelve successful years behind us in national politics - stated the State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office responsible for national policy on Tuesday in Szeged.
Árpád János Potápi - at the commemorative meeting organized on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Kálmán Mihalik, the composer of the Székely national anthem - said: we defined the tasks before us in national politics together with the parts of the nation, and we will carry them out together, and we can be justly proud of the results achieved.
The Secretary of State emphasized that strengthening identity and supporting families are among the priority goals of national policy, and from 2015-2016, economic development is also increasingly important, as the growing number of Hungarian enterprises across the border employ Hungarian people.
Today, we can speak of an almost unified Carpathian Basin space in terms of education, culture, economy, and media, despite the fact that there are borders, the politician said.
János Árpád Potápi also considers it a serious achievement that, in addition to the feeling of national belonging, there is also the experience of national belonging. When young people visit Transylvania or the Southern Region, they take it for granted that they will also meet Hungarian children and the Hungarian world there.
Acting Prime Minister Katalin Szili said in her presentation that the 21st century has brought us a world in which everything has been resolved. He emphasized that Europe will only be able to redefine itself in the world if it thinks in terms of a Europe of nations. The politician called it a serious problem that European politics cannot separate belonging to the nation and citizenship.
Katalin Szili emphasized that every nation must have symbols - like the anthem or the flag - that have a function both outwardly and inwardly, in the direction of the community. In several places in Europe, the regions have their own national anthem, he said, citing the provinces of Austria as an example. He said that the Székely anthem contains everything that means the will to fight, standing up for each other and regional identity.
Kálmán Michalik and the Székely flag/source/multkor.hu
The prime minister's representative stated that the autonomy of Székelyföld is not about the secession of the region, but about the demand also formulated in the basic principles of the European Union,
that a community can freely decide on matters that concern it, such as the freedom to use its flag, coat of arms, or sing its anthem, symbolizing its identity.
In 1921, the poet György Csanády wrote the poem that later became known as the Székely hymn, which was set to music that same year by Kálmán Mihalik. The centenary of the song, which was officially accepted as the national anthem of Székely in 2009 by the representatives of the Székely National Council, was played for the first time publicly in the Aquincum in Budapest on May 22, 1922, at the meeting of the Székely University and College Students' Association. The Székely anthem was included among the Hungarian hymns.
Kálmán Mihalik was born in Oravicabánya in Bánság in 1896. He graduated from the Piarists in Cluj, started his medical studies there, which he completed in Szeged after serving at the front, and he was only 26 years old when he died of typhus.
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