Szijjarto: 'Europe must return to classical values'

If Europe is to strengthen, "it must return to its own classical values" such as protecting the institution of the family and guaranteeing the freedom of "religion and national minority rights", the Hungarian foreign minister said in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Addressing an inter-faith conference organised by the Hungarian presidency of the Council of Europe, Peter Szijjarto said Hungary was at the forefront of protecting classical European values. Szijjarto said "the international liberal mainstream" had mounted "very serious attacks" in the areas of family affairs, religious freedom and minority protection regarding which "a dictatorship of opinion, a hegemony of opinion" had in effect emerged.