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President: Hungary’s, Germany’s common future is in Europe
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“Our common goal is to have peace, and peace is what could be the guarantee of a common European future,” the Hungarian president said in Berlin.
Concluding her two-day visit, Katalin Novák presented the Hungarian Order of Merit, Grand Cross civilian, to Wolfgang Schauble, the former president of Bundestag, the German parliament.
Schauble received the high state honour in recognition of his contribution to advancing Hungarian-German cooperation within the European Union and for his influential work in politics reflecting his commitment towards promoting the principle of the member states’ equality.
Novák said Hungary was no longer a raft floating between East and West,
but has a solid place in the heart of Europe. “This means that Europe would not exist without Hungary, as Hungary cannot exist without Europe either. And equally, Europe cannot exist without Germany, Germany cannot exist without Europe. Our common future is in Europe,” said Novák. In light of the recent adoption of the EU’s sixth package of sanctions on Russia, the Hungarian president underscored the importance of shifting “focus on creating peace” instead of elaborating on the option of further steps in the policy of sanctions.
Schauble, a former chancellery minister, interior minister and finance minister, is a politician “who not only has not changed, but has been able to believe that we have not changed either”, Novák said.
“We are the same Hungarians who fought in 1848, in 1956 and 33 years ago for our freedom,”