Deputy PM: Hungarian state aimed at ensuring nation’s survival

The “meaning and goal” of Hungarian statehood is to ensure the Hungarian nation’s survival and provide a better life for the people, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said on Friday, at the closing session of the Budapest Demography Summit, adding that “these are foundations to build everything else on”.

Semjén said that the nation was a “unique and unreplicable value” and insisted that “mankind would be poorer” if Hungarians disappeared.

Preserving the national identity is a primary obligation for Hungarians, he added.

The nation’s survival can only be ensured if “the country is populated by Hungarian people”; it requires that Hungarian babies should be born and “raised in the Hungarian culture, in the Hungarian language”, he said.

Semjén said that though the country’s population could be increased by allowing migrants to settle, “the Hungarian population cannot be replaced that way” and insisted that “the goal is that as many Hungarian babies should be born as needed to ensure the nation’s survival”.