EU affairs minister: Hungary employs zero tolerance against anti-Semitism

Janos Boka told a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jews that while holding the Council of the EU’s rotating presidency, Hungary will see it as a priority to cooperate with member states, EU institutions and European Jewish communities to further European Jewish communities and Jewish heritage.

At a time when Europe is facing rising anti-Semitism and intolerance, cross-border and cross-community cooperation against all forms of hate is especially important, Boka said.

At the commemoration held at the Holocaust Memorial Centre in downtown Budapest and organised by the Hungarian presidency of the EU, Andor Grosz, the head of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities Mazsihisz, said the centre showed examples of what discrimination and hate led to. “We learned the lesson at the cost of 6 million lives, we need a lot of effort to vanquish anti-Semitism,” Grosz said.