The Hungarian way out of Trianon and Europe's way around its own Trianon begin with the same step, which means the recognition of the right to national identity as a human right, as well as its mutual and meaningful guarantee by the states, the President of the Parliament stated on Friday at the reopening ceremony of the Trianon Museum in Várpalota .
László Kövér said: this is what the Hungarian Parliament proposed to all European states and nations with its resolution adopted on June 4, 2020.
This step can ensure that the people of Europe can freely inherit the mother tongue, culture and homeliness of their ancestors and freely pass it on to their descendants.
said the Speaker.
László Kövér emphasized: the right to national identity is one of the essential means of protecting general human dignity, which can strengthen peace, security and stability not only in the Carpathian Basin, but everywhere from the Balkans to the Donec Basin to the Caucasus.
The right to a national identity can also be the cornerstone of the reconstruction of the European Union, which has tragically lost its way and purpose these days.
he added.
In his speech, the President of the Parliament emphasized: if Trianon means that the natural ethnic proportions of the population of a geographical area are changed in an artificial, often violent way, or that they want to deprive the communities living in their homeland of their national identity, or that they want to make a community economically unviable, then it can be established that
"today, European politics as a whole, the European Union itself, is staggering towards its own Trianon".
Today, Europe's intellectual self-defense is in ruins, its inability to defend itself politically or economically is doubtful, and its military self-defense ability has been non-existent since the Second World War
– assessed László Kövér.
He compared the functioning of the European Commission "currently holding the leadership of the European Union hostage" to Mihály Károlyi and his colleagues. In Hungary, "Béla Kun and his gang" came after the Károlyis, the Speaker reminded.
It will be no different in Brussels next year either, said the President of the Parliament. He said: a "Béla Kun from the EU" could also arrive there, unless European citizens can stand in the way of the increasingly open empire-building and dictatorship-building efforts of the Brussels bureaucracy, which betrays Europe, in next year's European Parliament elections.
He said: Europe is currently the victim of a "planned population exchange operation disguised as illegal migration". Today, "identity terrorist attacks" are being carried out against all nations of Europe, the aim of which is to alienate the European people from themselves, their homeland and their national identity, László Kövér stated.
The Speaker said:
"although we may like to see ourselves as such, we are not Europe's martyrs, but Europe's survivors", and the recipe for survival "we are ready to share with everyone".
We do not want the fate of Trianon to be fulfilled again for anyone in Europe, because we believe that there is no safer and better life for European people and nations, including Hungarians, apart from the cooperation of democratic European states capable of national fairness towards each other, he emphasized.
According to the Speaker, the permanent exhibition of the Trianon Museum in Várpalota is a good tool for familiarization, remembrance and reminder.
László Kövér called Trianon's legacy an unchanging existential question even in the twenty-first century, "because for us today this legacy is about the fate and future of our more than two million Hungarian compatriots, about remaining Hungarians in their homeland".
On behalf of Hungary, László Kövér expressed his gratitude to the separated national communities for their centuries-old standing and loyalty to the Hungarian nation and their homeland, and instead of the political classes of the successor states, he expressed his gratitude for becoming loyal and value-creating citizens of the states under whose authority history forced them.
Speaking about the situation of the people living in the annexed areas, the President of the Parliament said:
Transcarpathian Hungarians are currently in danger, the Ukrainian government mocks them as "Ukrainians of Hungarian origin" and disputes their right to exist as a national community.
Speaking about Hungarians from Transylvania and the Highlands, László Kövér said that they are treated as a national security risk and in many cases as second-class citizens in their own homeland.
The living conditions of the Hungarian communities living in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia are currently legally settled, but due to their low population, their community future is not guaranteed in the long term, he pointed out.
In recent years, a new opportunity has opened up for the southern Hungarians living in Serbia, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Serbian nation and joining forces with them, they can prove to be stronger than those who nowadays "destiny Serbia to a Trianon fate", indicated the President of the Parliament.
From Friday, the Trianon Museum in Várpalota awaits visitors with completely renewed exhibition material.
MTI
Cover image: Illustration / MTI/János Vajda
