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Hungarian President: Demographic Roundtable aimed to increase population
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The Demographic Roundtable has been formed to make Hungary “a country with a growing population out of a country whose population is shrinking”, President Katalin Novák said at the new body’s inaugural session in Budapest on Monday.
Novák, who is also the head of the roundtable, said Hungary had “made moved in such a positive direction demographically in the past 13 years that is almost unprecedented in the highly developed western countries.” “From the back rows, Hungary has come to the mid-field,” she said, adding that whereas “we have succeeded in making a pro-family turnaround we have not yet made a demographic one.”
She said the roundtable would work to achieve a demographic turnaround to “raise the willingness to procreate the highest in Europe … and to reverse an over four decade-long negative trend” of a decreasing population. “We may not be enough to do that, but I think we could start a movement, which, if supported by many, will achieve that turnaround…”