Speeches

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

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

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,