Italian Conservativism Conference Keynote Speech – 2023
Buon giorno, Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome! I just arrived from Athens, where I participated at the New York Times’ Democracy Forum. Imagine a discussion between a radical left movie director, a women’s rights activist, and a Hungarian politician, moderated by a liberal journalist. Sounds like the opening line of a bad joke. As you can image I was attacked by both the moderator and one of the panelists in the first 3 seconds of the conversation. Looking at the lineup of this conference as well as the faces in
3rd Danube Geopolitical Summit keynote speech
Dear Mr. President Klaus, Distinguished Guests, Ambassadors, Dear Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends from Heritage Foundation, form Danube Institute, welcome and good morning. I am really happy to be here today. It is an honor to me to be with you and make the keynote speech on the second day. If I can be honest with you, I was not sure if I should accept this invitation. But ultimately I came to the conclusion that there is no better opportunity than this to engage in an
MCC 2023/24 opening ceremony speech
Greetings, professor! Greetings to the board members, the teaching staff, and the students of MCC! In preparing for this occasion, my aim at first was to encourage everyone with some inspiring, striking thought, preferably about the academic year ahead of us, full of challenges and achievements. About how good it is to use our talents, so that we can become our best selves, and other such things that one says at events like this. Then I came across a quote from the great musician Zoltán Kodály
MCC Feszt After | Tucker Carlson
One of America's most influential conservative political commentators has once again returned to Hungary. Tucker Carlson took the stage at Millenáris Park, at MCC Feszt After, an event jointly organized by Mathias Corvinus Collegium - MCC and Mandiner. After delivering his speech, Balázs Orbán, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MCC, had a conversation with him https://youtu.be/uyqUmdblvhQ?si=fVXk4IhOuAH6VH5t
University of Public Service: “Central European Cooperation in the Shadow of War”
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,
