Zsófia Nagy-Vargha, a deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, said Hungary’s birth rate has grown in the past decade at the fastest clip in the European Union while it fell in most countries, thanks to the government’s “reliable and complex” family support scheme. Addressing a podium discussion at the 5th Hungarian-Polish summer university organized by the Wacław Felczak Institute, Nagy-Vargha said the “complex, stable, targeted, reliable family policy system” of the past 12 years had contributed to the tendency, which made Hungary a “positive exception” among European countries. At the same time, the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine are expected to dampen its effect, she added.
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