Sweden’s Ambassador to Budapest has been summoned because of the comments by Swedish Minister for Social Affairs Annika Strandhäll, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement on Wednesday.

Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs Annika Strandhäll wrote on Twitter with relation to the Family Protection Action Plan announced by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán: “What is happening in Hungary is alarming. What Orbán wants now is for more ‘true’ Hungarian children to be born. The policy stinks of the 1930s, and as a right-wing populist he must obscure the consequences this policy is having on the independence for which women have fought”.

In the statement, the Ministry highlighted: “We continue to regard the fact that the Swedish Minister is accusing the Hungarian Government of Nazism because we are helping Hungarian families that undertake to have children as outrageous and unacceptable”.

“The pro-immigration Swedish Minister is not prepared to accept that the Hungarian Government is spending its money on Hungarian families and not on the migrants”, the Minister wrote, adding that it had summoned Sweden’s Ambassador to Budapest in light of the comments.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade/MTI)