Posted on 09/04/2021 2:12:39 PM PDT by ebb tide
From an interview with H.E. Mr. Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, Ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See (CittaNuova.it, 28 August).
Question: Europe is going through a serious demographic crisis and falling birth rates. What is the Hungarian state doing to support the family?
Answer: Hungary saw this danger years ago and decided to act. The Orbán government has been working on this for nine years and we have achieved wonderful results: a 40% increase in marriages, a 25% decrease in divorces and above all a 30% decrease in abortions.
Clearly, for such a change, the government's willingness to commit itself to families is essential, helping them and sending the message that many children are a gift to society.
Families must be helped financially, with non-repayable loans, reduced or waived taxes, and financial aid for housing and other needs.
This is the message that people, like our Minister for the Family Katalin Novák, bring to countries in Europe and around the world trying to convince other countries to follow us.
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Hungary has emerged as an island of sanity in a psychotic world.
On my MUST VISIT bucket list. Can’t wait to go.
Tiny little Hungary. And the last shall be first.
A cousin visited Budapest a couple of years ago and found it fantastic.
Yep, and maybe add Czechia and Poland to the list. These guys are keeping the flame.
It’s interesting that, as Western Europe collapses under the decadence of Western Civilisation, the former East-Block emerge as ascendant.
Go! You’ll love it!
Some parts of Eastern Europe aren’t getting enough food?
Went to Yugoslavia and East Berlin in 84 when it was Communist. I had just graduated from grad school.
I couldn’t believe what my family member were going through. They were living in hell holes.
Went back to Germany in early 1990. Spent a day at the Brandenburg Gate watching families get reunited. I sobbed all day.
Have a piece of the Berlin Wall in my living room.
Post-Communist Eastern Europe is definitely on my bucket list!
Am I the only one reading Hungary did this by giving freebies? If a family will only start if someone is paying them to stay home, how likely are they to make it through challenes?
Non-repayable loans sound an awful lot like welfare. Especially if there is an income test.
I saw that, too. My post just after yours.
God bless them.
One improvement figure is missing from that list, though. I didn’t see an increase in the birthrate.
Isn’t a 30% decrease in abortions a 30% increase in births?
Birth rate still remains low in Hungary.
To fund unlimited abortions at home and abroad, perhaps?
Or to feed and house illegals invading one's country?
Hungary does neither. What's your problem with them?
Maybe because they aren’t allowing the blood-thirsty muslims to invade their country and multiply like rats and artifically a country’s native birth rate.
My husband said the prettiest women on earth were from Hungary.
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