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ORBÁN: POLITICAL DEBATES IN EUROPE PUT HIGH CULTURE IN NEW LIGHT

 

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday that political debates in Europe today that pit “globalisation against Christian heritage, the bureaucracy in Brussels against national pride, immigration against family support, and gender politics against the protection of children”, put high culture and its mission in a new light. The conflict, he said, is not between West and East, but between West and West, and it poses the threat of “cultural alienation”.
“We want to keep Europe a whole, and we must do something against cultural alienation,” he added. He said high culture commands respect and attention in the “Babel-like turmoil” of today. “If there is a higher purpose which music – Hungarian music, too – can achieve, then it is this,” he added.