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“Without ethnic foundations, there are no European nations, and without European nations, European nation states have no raison d’être,” said László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, in his speech at the Conference of Speakers of the European Union Parliaments in Budapest on Monday.
He emphasized that despite all propaganda to the contrary, Europe’s cultural identity today still has two defining and indispensable elements: a Christian value system dating back more than two thousand years, and a national consciousness that has developed over the last three hundred years. From our holidays to our everyday customs, there is almost nothing whose origins and roots do not lie in our Christian and national traditions, he recalled. There has never been and there is no such thing as a European nation, and therefore there is no independent European identity, he stated.
He pointed out that
Christian and national identity form the soul of Europe, a historical, sociological, cultural-anthropological, and socio-psychological reality that we all perceive.
However, in his words, we also perceive that some people want to destroy this at all costs, using all means at their disposal, and steal the soul of Europe. These are non-state interest groups, typically based outside of Europe but with European allies, who want to plunder the states of Europe after this “soul theft” and gain control and rights over the financial, economic, natural, and human resources of all European nations for their own benefit, Mr. Kövér said.
Without exception, every European country is engaged in a conscious and systematic intellectual, spiritual, and political war against traditional families, Christian churches, and national identity, which is slowly exhausting the concept of “identity terrorism,”
he stated. He pointed out that in order to subjugate someone in terms of power, one must first occupy their consciousness and only then their territory – this is the rule of 21st-century hybrid warfare against European nations.
He noted that “the secret service of the most populous member state of the European Union” had just stated in a document that the concept of a nation based on ethnicity is incompatible with democracy. The “sticking point,” however, is that there is no nation without an ethnic element, since European nations, as historical entities, are nothing more than “products” of the gradual self-awareness of ethnic communities defined by a common language, common history, and common culture, the House Speaker emphasized.
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“In our view, the ethnic element should not be removed from European national identity, especially not by means of power or legal means—but rather, constitutional law, civil law, and international law must provide morally and politically appropriate answers to questions of multi-ethnic existence within European nations that are acceptable to all European states and nations,” Mr. Kövér underlined.
He continued by saying that we must find a 21st-century legal and political solution to ethnic-based European national coexistence, learning from the lessons of 20th-century European history, so that neither individual nations nor national communities living together within states will ever again be able to use violence or the threat of violence to achieve their goals.
The House Speaker emphasized that
people, as citizens of a state, have a national identity, and that this identity, as a state of mind and a set of values, stems from their mother tongue, culture, and homeland.
Everyone should have the right to freely inherit the mother tongue, culture, and homeland of their ancestors and to freely pass these on to their descendants, he urged, adding that the state is responsible for protecting the identity of national communities, whether they are in the majority or minority.
The Hungarian proposal is that the right to national identity should be made part of the latest generation of European and universal human rights through European cooperation, not only for the indigenous minority communities that make up around one tenth of the population of the EU Member States, but also for the benefit of the majority. This could be a useful tool for protecting human dignity not only in Europe but worldwide, strengthening peace, security, and stability everywhere, and last but not least, serving as an effective means of protecting European cultural identity, the soul of Europe, Kövér concluded.
Via MTI, Deutsche Welle; Featured photo via MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd
