President Katalin Novák has thanked border officers for their work, saying they guaranteed that Hungarians felt safe in their country.
The president visited Bácsszentgyörgy, a village near Hungary’s southern border with Serbia, on the third day of her visit to Bács-Kiskun County. She noted that the county had the longest border section with Serbia in Hungary: “Here, the border protects Europe itself, not only Hungary.” In the evening she hosted a gala dinner for the county’s officials, where she decorated Ibolya Szilágyi Szinger, the rector of the Eötvös József College, with the Order of Merit of Hungary, Knight’s Cross.