‘The EU’s entire cooperation is being undermined by its flawed migration policy, and the migration pact must be scrapped,’ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán emphasized after meeting with Slovak PM Robert Fico and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on Tuesday. The leaders’ discussions focused on strengthening regional cooperation to address the challenge of illegal migration.
‘Among the executed were counts and commoners, descendants of Croatian and Serbian border guard families, imperial Germans, and native Armenians. Some were connected to the Hungarian cause by family ties, others by their unit or simply by their wealth and social status. But all of them were men who believed that once they had sworn an oath to the Hungarian constitution at the behest of the emperor, they had to defend that constitution—even against the emperor himself.’
Abraham Lincoln was the first President ever elected from the Republican Party. He ran on a platform promising to prevent slavery from spreading within the Union. Therefore, his election directly led to the secession of 11 Southern states, which, in turn, led to the American Civil War.
The foundation of the Hungarian State by King Stephen I created unprecedented stability in the Carpathian Basin, setting the region on the path of Western-style modernization and development.
The M5 channel will be airing such films as the 1996 historical drama about the Magyar tribes settling into the Carpathian Basin titled The Conquest (Honfoglalás), and the 2023 documentary The Rise of the Árpáds (Az Árpádok felemelkedése). Meanwhile, the commercial TV channel TV2 will have the 2023 historical drama Now or Never! (Most vagy soha!) about a different, but equally significant time in Hungarian history, the 1848–1849 Revolution and War of Independence against the Habsburgs.
‘What has been going on at Columbia, how the professors are treating Jewish students, how they wouldn’t give you a letter of reference if you were a Zionist, all this has been normalized to the extent that it led to the recent encampments. So, when you normalize the narrative against Jews and Zionists so much that it is engrained in people that it’s okay to hate them, and there are no consequences, that’s when we end up seeing what happened a couple of months ago at the Ivy League colleges in America.’
Two Hungarian American soldiers, both serving in the US Army, have received both the Purple Heart and the highest military award in the US, the Medal of Honor: Corporal Tibor ‘Ted’ Rubin for his service in the Korean War, and Staff Sergeant László Rábel for his service in the Vietnam War.
Hungarian military force development is currently taking place in several dimensions: rearmament, real estate and infrastructure development, and transformation of the HDF’s organizational culture. On the second day of this year’s MCC Feszt, Hungarian Minister of Defence Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky gave a comprehensive overview of the current state of the Hungarian armed forces, future plans, and why he considers Hungary a military nation.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks with his Romanian counterpart Marcel Ciolacu on Friday, a day before Orbán’s speech at Tusványos. The discussions focused on bilateral relations between the two countries and Romania’s accession to the Schengen Area.
The Hungarian Defence Forces’ Basic Non-Commissioned Officer Course (AAT), a one-year programme, has equipped the newly graduating non-commissioned officers with various skills. With these capabilities, they will not only be able to fulfill their leadership duties but also serve the nation in a manner befitting and worthy of an NCO, Command Sergeant Major of the Hungarian Defence Forces Zoltán Kaszab stated during an internal inauguration ceremony held at the barracks’ assembly ground. This year’s NCO inauguration will be held on Saturday, 13 July, at Heroes’ Square in Budapest.
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