A stronger Central-Europe is good for the whole of Europe, the Minister of Human Capacities stressed on Friday at the University of Warsaw where he delivered a lecture entitled The Future of Europe – Our Future.
Zoltán Balog met with Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Piotr Glinski and Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy Elzbieta Rafalska in the afternoon, and then paid a visit to the Eastern-European Studies Department of the University of Warsaw where he delivered a lecture.
In his lecture which also demonstrated the results of Hungary’s family and social policy with several figures, the Minister discussed the relationship between Christian values and the acts which seek to implement these.
Upon covering the issue of migration, he highlighted Central-European societies’ love of freedom based on their experiences in the 20th century, their value-centred mentality and identity-awareness, by contrasting them with the value neutrality which is at present dominant in Western-European societies. He said: strong identity awareness constitutes the best foundations for economic growth and social stability.
In this context, he took the view: “a stronger Central-Europe is good for the whole of Europe”, and a strong friendship and cooperation between Poland and Hungary “is the best thing we can provide for the whole of Europe”.
In the morning, Mr Balog attended in Warsaw the opening ceremony of the ethnographic exhibition Hungarian Love organised as one of the closing events of the Hungarian Year in Poland where he said, inter alia, that we would like a Europe in which the strength of Polish and Hungarian families constitutes the strength of Europe.