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PM Orbán addresses crowd of unprecedented numbers: “Our biggest battle is about to begin”

“They want to take our country away. Not with the stroke of a pen like they did a hundred years ago in Trianon,” said Prime Minister Orbán in his March 15th address before a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands to commemorate the 170th anniversary of Hungary’s 1848 Revolution and War of Independence, “but that we voluntarily hand it over to others in the decades to come.”

Mar 15, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács
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In the spirit of 1848, says PM Orbán, we have a chance to transform Europe

Hungary’s national day, March 15th, commemorates the day in 1848 when Hungarians started a revolution that would become a war of independence from the Habsburgs. In his address on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke of the meaning that 1848 carries for Hungary and its significance to today’s Europe.

Mar 16, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács
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National day celebrations held throughout Hungary

The Hungarian national flag was hoisted in front of Parliament this morning to mark state celebrations of the anniversary of the Revolution and War of Independence of 1848-49.

Mar 15, 2017