House Speaker: Hungary Will Continue to Back Its Southern and Eastern Neighbors in EU Enlargement

"The Hungarian National Assembly has supported and will continue to support its southern and eastern neighbors involved in the EU enlargement process through parliamentary diplomacy at both political and official levels," the speaker of the National Assembly said on Monday in Budapest.

The House speaker recalled that Istvan Bibo, the then state minister, wrote his appeal for help to the United Nations and the world from within the Hungarian Parliament’s walls on November 4, 1956. This happened when the Soviet Union sent more tanks to crush Hungary’s anti-communist revolution than Hitler deployed against Poland in 1939, all while the West remained indifferent, standing idly by. He concluded by saying that since then, "we Hungarians do not appreciate being lectured on issues of solidarity and war and peace."

Cover Photo: Laszlo Kover, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, inspects the guard of honor in front of the Parliament building (Photo: AFP/Attila Kisbenedek).