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Participants at the “Battle for the Soul of Europe” conference are spending two days examining key issues shaping the continent’s future — including European identity, culture, the economy, migration, geopolitics, and the rule of law — through panel discussions, presentations, and professional workshops. The program brings together dozens of Hungarian and international speakers, researchers, and public figures from across Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
In his opening speech, Zoltán Szalai, Director General of the MCC, stated: “The meeting is not a formal event, but rather a forum for “serious intellectual work,” with the preservation of Europe’s spiritual and cultural foundations at stake. In his words, this struggle affects all European citizens, especially those who feel responsible for future generations.”
Good things are fragile. Zoltán Szalai argues Hungary chooses connectivity and common-sense over EU sanctimony. When Brussels censors language to protect feelings, Hungary protects reality to preserve civilisation. @zoszalai #SoulOfEurope pic.twitter.com/2BxZKg1C7n
— MCC Brussels (@MCC_Brussels) December 3, 2025
He emphasized that the goal of the MCC’s talent development and research activities is to educate young people who, in addition to professional excellence, have a strong cultural and national identity and a sense of community responsibility. He said that the institution’s activities aim to enable young people to think critically and independently.
The director general also pointed out that Europe faces many long-term challenges, while the continent’s leaders, “talking about democracy,” are pushing issues of culture, faith, sovereignty, and freedom into the background.
Since the 1990s, Brussels has become the embodiment of everything that a European democrat must oppose,”
said former Czech President and Prime Minister Václav Klaus on Wednesday, in Brussels.
In his speech, he emphasized that the European Union’s institutional system has developed in a direction that undermines the principles of nation states and market economies.
At #SoulOfEurope, Václav Klaus sets the tone. @vaclavklaus warns that Europe can’t survive on managed decline and borrowed convictions. Brussels has become the incorporation of everything: suppressing the nation-state, empowering supranational overreach, and drowning us in… pic.twitter.com/UcSCmXjds3
— MCC Brussels (@MCC_Brussels) December 3, 2025
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Klaus stressed that he opposes the excessive expansion of supranational institutions and Brussels regulations, which he believes are reminiscent of the central planning seen under communism. He believes that political correctness and the intervention of the Brussels elite have led to a system that lacks the checks and balances essential for democracy to function.
According to the former head of state, many people now recognize that the current European system is comparable not only to communism, but also to other collectivist ideologies. In his presentation, he also highlighted two topics: the concept of the “soul of Europe,” and the direction of EU economic policy.
Responding to the title of the conference, “Battle for the Soul of Europe,” he said that Europe does not have a common soul or a common idea, “it never has had, and there is no need for it.”
He argued that the continent is diverse, its history is not uniform, and the search for a common idea can only lead to a falsification of history and reality.
He emphasized that freedom is an important European value, but it cannot be considered the “soul of Europe” and does not justify the creation of a pan-continental, unified political space. “Europe is not homogeneous, Europe does not have a common history,” he said.
Klaus strongly criticized the frequent conceptual confusion between Europe and the European Union.
The European Union is not Europe,”
he emphasized. In his view, the EU is not a philosophical or civilizational space, but rather a cooperation between countries based on common interests, which should be viewed pragmatically. He added that based on economics, there is little real common good at the continental level, yet he believes that “Brussels considers everything to be common good.”
Via MTI; Featured photo: X/MCC Brussels
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