Orbán marks Cohesion Day in Sátoraljaújhely

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, addressing a commemoration of the Trianon Peace Treaty on Tuesday, said: “We can stand proud and declare that we have survived.”

“Here we are at the heart of Europe, despite being divided up, despite wars and dictatorships,” Viktor Orbán said in his address in in Sátoraljaújhely, north-east Hungary, marking Hungary’s National Cohesion Day.

Hungarians, he said, had “not only survived but they are now the largest nation in the Carpathian Basin”.

“Together we will again be great, successful and victorious,” Orbán told his audience, some 1,000 young people from ethnic Hungarian communities participating in a camp organised by the Rákóczi Association. He added that Hungary seeks to cooperate with its neighbours and anyone willing to cooperate “will do well”.

Orbán said

Hungary’s “economic, cultural and military powers” were rising “noticeably”.

It is time to use those powers to increase cooperation with the peoples of central Europe, he said. “Hungary’s hundred years of solitude is over … now we’re miles away from where we set off thirty years ago, when we broke away from the Soviet Union”.