The Hungarian government sees strengthening families and protecting children as the key to solving demographic problems, the Parliamentary and Strategic State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office announced on Friday at a conference organized to present the results of the Europe Project 2021 research.
At an event organized by the Mária Kopp Institute for Population and Families (Kincs) and the Századvég Foundation, Balázs Orbán highlighted that between 2010 and 2020, the amount of family allowances within the GDP increased to 5 percent, and from 2022 it will increase to 6.2 percent of the GDP also reaches This puts Hungary in first place in the European Union, he added.
He also emphasized that the government's family policy has achieved serious results in the past decade: two hundred thousand more children were born than if there were no family subsidies, the number of marriages is constantly increasing, and the number of divorces and abortions is decreasing. In addition, the fertility rate increased from 1.2 to 1.6, no other country in Europe was able to achieve such a development in a decade, explained the state secretary.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Photo: MTI / Zsolt Szigetváry
