August 20 – Hungarian house speaker Kövér marks national holiday

House Speaker László Kövér marked Hungary’s August 20 national holiday on its eve on Sunday, and said in an interview to commercial radio Karc FM that “Hungary is a nation-state because its national culture is based on Christian values”.

“Defending Hungarian national culture, in a broader sense, means protecting the civilisation and culture of the whole of Europe,” Kövér said in his interview, adding that

“we are the security and future of Europe”.

Concerning Europe, House Speaker said that Christian ethics was the continent’s spiritual basis, supported by “Greek philosophy, Roman law, and the Ten Commandments”. He insisted that the values built on those foundations are now being jeopardised by “massive immigration of people coming from different cultures, who won’t even respect Europe’s written law let alone non-written rules of ethics”, as well as by those that “manage, help, and propagate organised migration in order to loosen up and eliminate that spiritual basis”.

Defending Europe means “protecting the sanctity of the family and of marriage and women’s equal dignity”,

Kövér said. He added that “women and men could never be equal because of their biological characteristics, but it does not mean that they should not be equal in terms of their human dignity”.

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On another subject, Kövér said that parliament in the current cycle would be working to adopt laws “aimed at regulating the government’s room for maneouvre”. He argued that in the past 28 years parliament “has not been able to appropriately control executive power”. Increasing parliamentary control will be a top priority for the next four years, the house speaker added.