patriotism

Orbán all'Europarlamento: "Non accettiamo minacce e ricatti. We will not be a homeland of immigration"

12 September 2018 by admin

The Hungarian Prime Minister speaks before the plenary in Strasbourg “to defend Hungary which has been a member of the European family for a thousand years”

STRASBOURG – After partially anticipating his speech with several posts on his Facebook profile, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke today in Strasbourg at the European Parliament hearing on Sargentini report in which it will be decided whether or not to sanction Budapest on violation of the rule of law. “You have already formed an idea about this relationship, and my intervention will not change your opinion, but I came anyway. You will not condemn a government, but Hungary which has been a member of the European family for a thousand years. I'm here to defend my homeland”, said the Hungarian prime minister, who defended his actions above all due to the broad consensus that his government receives at home. And really comforted by internal consensus, Orban had no problem taking sides directly against the European institutions: “Hungary will be condemned because it has decided that it will not be a homeland for immigration. But we will not accept threats and blackmail from pro-immigration forces: we will defend our borders, we will stop illegal immigration against you too, if necessary”. The leader of Fidesz, who is part of the European People's Party family in Brussels, he stated how the measures on immigration were taken on the basis of the will expressed by the Hungarian people: “We are the ones who defend our borders and only we can decide who to live with. We stopped hundreds and thousands of illegal migrants and defended Hungary and Europe. The Hungarians have decided that our homeland will not be a country of immigration.". Read More

Actuality | FIFTH COLUMN

The physicist against the homelands

2 August 2018 by admin

FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
Even the physicist Carlo Rovelli wanted to align himself with the Permanent Theme: attack patriotism because it turns into nationalist poison, Nazi and racist, and sing praises to humanity without borders. He wrote a long article yesterday in Corriere della Sera entitled "The only nation is humanity".
But why do we have to translate love of country with its violent and racist degeneration, it is not possible to love and protect your own nation, their civilization without degrading into xenophobia and racism? When we talk about religion, perhaps we reduce it to fanaticism and religious persecution? When we talk about family, of paternal love, maternal branch, we must necessarily reduce it to the abuses and abuses sometimes committed in its name? And changing sides, because when we talk about equality we don't immediately associate it with the memory of the Jacobin Terror or the horrors of communism in all its regimes? Or when we talk about freedom we perhaps reduce it to the abuses of freedom that lead to violence, to drugs, to oppression and arbitrariness?
The patriotic love, the natural and cultural bond with one's nation and its traditions, it is a fundamental need of the human soul and belongs to every era and every civilization. There are various ways of understanding that bond. Today, the most coherent way is not to close oneself in armed tribes against each other, but integrate nations into broader contexts, like Europe, and recognize mutual legitimacy and value of nations, yours like mine. But you can love humanity starting from your own city, from their own land, from your country. Feel solidarity starting from those who are closest to those who are further away. Read More