Kover: 2012-2022 one of best decades in Hungarian history

Laszlo Kover said the decade had brought uninterrupted economic development and increasing living standards. “In all areas, in culture, in defence and nation policy such achievements were made that have no direct analogies in Hungarian history,” he said.

Kover said, however, that the war in Ukraine caused “everyday difficulties that are both of an economic and political nature.” He stressed the Hungarian government’s “pro-peace stance”, adding that the country “does not benefit much from that position as the governments of a part of Europe have an interest in a prolonged war.”

“Today Europe is under the political and psychological terror of pro-war circles,” Kover said, adding that Hungary’s being alone with its position meant “serious drawbacks” for the country. In an international environment in which “everything works against the Hungarian government” it is bent on keeping the country on an upward path “or at least retaining the achievements made so far,” the house speaker said.