Hungary pro-family policies working; celebrates 9.4% increase in births

By Voice of Europe 11 April 2020



Instead of choosing immigration to reverse Hungary’s long-standing downward demographic trend, the country’s ruling conservative Hungarian government instead chose a society and economy conducive to higher birth rates when it first came to power in 2010.
That approach now appears to be working, with the Hungarian government continuing to implement pro-family policies even as the coronavirus crisis ravages Europe.
“In 2010, we started to build a family-friendly country… Our main goal is to eliminate the burdens that couples face when they would like to have children,” said Katalin Novák, State Secretary for Family, Youth, and International Affairs to Breitbart in an interview. The 42-year-old Novák, a lawyer by training and since 2017 the vice-president of the ruling conservative Fidesz party, has three children.
“The recent demographic figures speak for themselves, the number of marriages is at its 40-year high, the fertility rate at its 20-year high, while the divorces haven’t been as low as last year in the last six decades,” she added.
Eduard von Habsburg, Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, also touted the big year-on-year rise in births due to Hungary’s pro-family policies on social media.

https://twitter.com/EduardHabsburg/s...22453844938752

Novák said during a press conference this week that “the government will continue supporting families during the coronavirus epidemic,” with the state secretary also acknowledging the challenges the coronavirus poses every family.

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