A safe environment which is sustainable both economically and environmentally supports the births of children in Hungary.
The demographic situation varies from country to country, but everywhere the goal is to find some kind of a solution. Therefore, monitoring, evaluating and interpreting demographic processes is literally a matter of life and death, the Minister of Human Capacities said on Thursday at the 3rd Budapest Demographic Summit.
Since the introduction of the online era, in Hungary in five years the so-called VAT gap has fallen by 12 percentage points. According to a study of the European Commission released on Thursday, the government’s measures seeking to whiten the economy are successful, and thanks to this, by 2018 the rate of tax evasion has shrunk to a single-digit figure which is exemplary even in the European Union.
Immigration and border protection were the main topics of the meeting of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
The best interests of the Hungarian people, the strengthening of families and the development of the economy are at the centre of the government’s way of thinking.
“Joint action on the part of the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) fully serves the Hungarian national interest, and accordingly the maintaining of this joint action is also a national interest”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Warsaw on Thursday.
In the Castle Garden Bazaar on Thursday, at the 3rd Budapest Demographic Summit, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described the pursuit of robust demographic policy as a goal of the state and a task of the Government. If there are no families or children, he said a national community can disappear, and if a nation disappears, “something irreplaceable disappears from the world”.
Today demography is not just one cause of many; it is our most important common cause.
“Hungary has demonstrated that we can protect our borders and stop inland migration; Life and the facts have proven us right: the immigration policy represented by the Visegrád countries is the correct one”, Minister of Justice Judit Varga said in an interview published in Thursday’s edition of Hungarian political weekly Figyelő.
On Wednesday evening in the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Serbian President of the Republic Aleksandar Vucic, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini at a working dinner.