What is Hungary’s family policy for – and why the head of the right-wing Italian nationalist government, Giorgia Meloni, was also invited.
Vienna/Budapest. In Budapest’s Heroes’ Square at the Museum of Fine Arts, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was in his element. The “fifth demographic summit” has been taking place there since Thursday. International participants ponder the question of how Europe’s birth rate can be boosted again. And Orbán believes he knows the answer. In any case, Hungary’s prime minister praised his staunchly conservative family policy on the first day of the summit, as did his guests, including polarizing scientists, Christian activists and right-wing politicians such as Serbia’s head of state, Aleksandar Vučić. , the pro-Russian leader of Bulgaria, President Rumen Radev and the post-fascist Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, but also officials of the Arab autocracies.