At a conference in Bratislava, Katalin Novák, Hungary’s family affairs minister, said countries that choose to support immigrants instead of families will give up their future.
“Today it is true for every country in Europe that not enough children are born, and although Europe’s population is growing, it is solely due to immigration,” the minister said in her address to the conference organized by the Slovak parliament. “However, if we prefer migration to family support, we will give up our future,” she said, adding that “migration is a wrong answer to challenges posed by demographic changes.”
The minister said that several contributors to the conference called the Hungarian government’s policy supporting families over the past decade a model for Slovakia to follow.