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"Mr President, tomorrow will be the 56th anniversary of the start of the 1956 Revolution. The date of 23 October is a celebration not only for Hungarians but for all those who love freedom. This year, it will be a double celebration, since we will also be commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of József Mindszenty, the cardinal who was thrown into prison by both the fascist and communist dictatorships. The ideals from which Mindszenty drew strength – freedom, tradition, fellowship – were genuinely European ideas. These ideals have also been represented by the statesmen who worked in Western Europe at that time to lift a continent exhausted by war. De Gasperi, Schuman, Monnet and Adenauer believed in the same Christian Europe as did the Hungarian cardinal.
These ideals and this faith preserved the tortured priest’s strength of character and lifted Europe out of a situation that seemed hopeless. Today, hope seems to be disappearing from our continent again. As we seek a way out, it is sometimes worth looking back to our forebears, to those whose moral and public example has served as a base for a unified Europe."@en1
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