June 2023

Ladies and gentlemen! Assembled dignitaries!   The great Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, reflecting on Hungary's European future after the end of the Second World War, formulated the following sentences:   “Hungary can live and survive in the new Europe only by demanding quality; there is no way we can be mediocre.”   I believe that today's conference and the series organized by the National University of Public Service in order that we might reflect, eighty years later, not primarily on Hungary, but on Central Europe and, in a broader sense,