Set up as a model, Hungary's pronatalist policy is struggling to bear fruit

2024-02-04T19:00:24.851Z

Highlights: Set up as a model, Hungary's pronatalist policy is struggling to bear fruit. Since the beginning of the 1980s, more people die than are born in Hungary. The emigration of workers to western Europe accelerated the decline. “We do not want to make Hungary a society without a future, full of women hating men and feminized men terrified of women who only see family and children as obstacles to their personal fulfillment,” says Laszlo Kövér, President of the Hungarian Parliament.

DECRYPTION - Behind the speeches, oscillating between paternalism and conservatism, stands an alarming reality: since the beginning of the 1980s, more people die than are born in the country. The emigration of workers to western Europe accelerated the decline.