MTI Hungary Today
Improving Hungary’s demographic
situation will require a change in mentality in addition to removing obstacles
to having children, Speaker of Parliament László Kövér said in
Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni), in northern Romania, on Saturday.
Hungary
is a European leader in spending close to 5 percent of its GDP on its
population policy, but the government’s family policy is focused solely on
eliminating the physical and financial obstacles to having children faced by
young couples today, Kövér told a podium discussion at a summer camp organised
by the Hungarian Youth of Transylvania association.
But
the hard part is yet to come, the speaker said, arguing that a turnaround of
Hungary’s current
demographic trend would also require a change in mentality. The
multi-child family model must be made into a trend, he added.
Kövér
said there has already been a positive example of this in Szeklerland. He said
that in a certain village, the birth rate outstripped the number of deaths
because families with 2-4 children had become common.
He
added that people should be made to realise that “good Hungarians are not those
who speak Hungarian but those who have 3-4 children and 9-16 grandchildren who
all speak Hungarian and are committed to the nation’s cause.”
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