Orbán’s summer university in Romania important step in peace mission?

Zsolt Németh, the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee and founder of the Summer University in Baile Tusnad (Tusnádfürdő), in central Romania, has called for “better dialogue rather than confrontation, even amidst today’s political conditions”.

The main strength of the summer university has been “cooperation and dialogue rather than confrontation or monologue”, Németh told a press conference held ahead of this year’s event to be organised under the motto “On a Better Track” between July 23-28.

“There hasn’t been such a great need for thinking and political analysis than now,” Németh said, adding that the Russia-Ukraine war was “a political milestone” and “the issue of war or peace” would determine the next decades both in a political and an economic sense.

Németh called Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s peace mission “an already successful venture” which had evoked “a unique response and a tangible change of trends in the narratives of peace”. He said the position calling for a diplomatic settlement rather than a military solution was gaining momentum, and insisted that the summer university, with Orbán speaking on Saturday, would be “an important step in the peace mission”.