The country needs to become a regional middle power, writes Balázs Orbán, the prime minister's political director.Continue reading
The Western world cannot afford to be divided into blocs that are hostile to each other, the prime minister’s political director said in New York late on Tuesday.
A division into blocs is against the interests of Western civilization, Balázs Orbán told the New York Young Republican Club, Hungarian news agency MTI reports.
Non-Western countries are already competing with the West in terms of technology and the economy and have even gained an advantage in terms of demographics and natural resources, he said. He added that the West became great through the cooperation of free nations, which must continue in the future.
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The political director said that the Hungarian and American conservative strategies have many similarities, such as the relationship between the individual and his community and the idea that the family is the smallest natural community in Western civilization.
The equality of men and women in this community stems from the ideals of Christianity, which does not mean that men and women are equal,”
Orbán added.
He said that children also have the right to a mother and a father, adding that the enforcement of this principle and the care of children can be supported by the state, even if family life is considered part of private life. He said the institution of marriage was under attack from progressive forces. Another common point, he said, was that the nation embodied the highest level of natural political community, adding that the idea of the nation was also under attack today. Orbán highlighted the state’s responsibility to represent its communities as a fourth common element of Hungarian and American conservative strategies.
The event, organized by the New York Young Republican Club and the Liszt Institute New York, also featured the presentation of the English-language edition of the political director’s book, The Hungarian Way of Strategy. This was followed by a panel discussion between the author and American intellectuals on political, security, and social issues.
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