Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán payed a visit to Cluj-Napoca and Oradea in the period of 30 September – 2 October, 2017 to the Transylvanian events of the jubilee year organized to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that maintaining Hungarian communities is one of the precepts of the national mission, which “is to fight to ensure that people can prosper, study in Hungarian, and live as Hungarians in the land of their birth”. We are building a unified Hungarian nation that has joint goals and joint tasks, and which now also makes joint decisions. Mr. Orbán said there there is a shared interest in a future in which the relationship between the Romanian and Hungarian nations is balanced, and in which the rights of Hungarians are also recognised: “It is in our mutual interest to have a future in which the closure of a school can only be a malfunction in the system and some kind of mistake, and not a normal feature of life”. It is in our mutual interest to have a future in which no Hungarian or Romanian community can be stripped of its right to study in its own language.”
At the consecration of a new Protestant church in Florești, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that “Hungary is strong enough in both body and spirit to also take responsibility for Transylvanian Hungarians”. Praising the settlement’s Protestant community for its work in building a congregation and a church, the Prime Minister said: “Where there is work, and where there is will – a will to act and solidarity – assistance will not be withheld. We are proud that the Hungarian government has had the opportunity to fund completion of this church”. He pointed out that the assistance provided towards construction of the church is also in part thanks to the fact that in 2014 the Hungarian communities in the Carpathian Basin had the opportunity to collectively decide on a national policy that transcends borders and assumes responsibility for all Hungarian communities.
In Cluj-Napoca the leaders of Fidesz and the RMDSZ had talks on important medium- and long-term issues. The politicians discussed the economic situation of Hungary and Romania and established that it is time to link the economic system of the two countries with the help of large projects at higher level. The RMDSZ delegation, led by Hunor Kelemen, urged the organization of high-level Hungarian-Romanian government meetings as soon as possible.
