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Hungary at a Crossroads: Economic Turmoil, Internal Dissent and the Rise of Péter Magyar – QUICK TAKE
2 October 2024
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared after the 2018 general election in Hungary that his plan was to make “demography” the focus of the next governmental cycle. Although some of the policy visions behind this statement are currently unknown, it is clear that the government is trying to place all its measures in the framework of family policy.
The main goal of family policy is to raise the number of childbirths. The government believes “a demographic turn” is necessary to achieve this; the preconditions of which are a long-term, stable family policy, maintaining significant payments to families and the preference for the traditional family model.
The government’s rhetoric repeatedly suggests that Europe’s population is falling, and while the West is trying to meet this challenge through immigration, Hungary and certain countries in the region are using a proposed solution based on internal resources.
In this regard, family policy is present as a tool in the civilizational war constructed by the government’s rhetoric which is aimed at defending the ethnic and cultural characteristics of the Visegrad Group (V4) and even Europe as a whole. These ideological frames are what primarily lift demography to the top of the government’s agenda.
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