The university was founded last March 16 by merging the Zrinyi Miklos Defence University, the Police Officers College and the faculty of economics of Budapest’s Corvinus University.

Orban spoke of a strong, modern, just, respectable state which creates a firm foundation for succeeding in life on one’s merits.

In such a state the public interest comes before private interests, he said, and those who view service to the homeland and the public as their profession can be educated at a university established in response to crisis.

The efforts of the past 18 months have opened the door to opportunities and “we have reached the point of consolidating the new constitutional order,” Orban said."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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