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Minister: Jobs, family, innovation are Hungary’s solutions to social challenges
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Supporting jobs, families and innovation are Hungary’s recipe for addressing social challenges faced by the European Union, Katalin Novák, the minister in charge of family affairs, said in Porto on Thursday.
Novák held talks with Ana Mendes Godinho, Portugal’s labour, solidarity and social security minster, in the city hosting an EU summit focusing on social affairs on Friday and Saturday.
Novák told Hungarian public media that she will present “the Hungarian model”, which offered a solid family support policy and an employment-focused economic policy, as solutions to welfare challenges such as reducing poverty in general and child poverty in particular.
“I will highlight Hungary’s solution … how a country can respond innovatively to new challenges while strongly preserving the unity of the family,” Novák said, noting Hungary’s efforts to preserve and create jobs.
Meanwhile, Novák warned that Hungary would staunchly defend its sovereignty when it came to certain proposals such as offering benefits to migrants in countries which have seen an increase in their numbers.
She also said Hungary rejected a unified EU tax regime which would require hiking taxes. The minister highlighted Hungary’s low corporate tax rate, low tax on family benefits, and its exemption of under-25s from paying personal income tax among other policies.
I hope Novak also explained that a downside of encouraging women to be baby factories on an industrial scale in return for government money has been that the orphanages / children’s home are at bursting point with children conceived for cash and then dumped.
If people aren’t as enthusiastic in Portugal at bringing children into this world, maybe it’s because they’re being responsible and sensible. It’s not enough to say you’ll be exempt from tax if you have four children. I know it’s the policy of Fidesz but what if they don’t get re elected, they won’t be in power for ever. What then. Unless the parents have a more than comfortable lifestyle, it still costs a fortune. Novak shouldn’t criticise other countries for their beliefs. It’s not always to do with migrants. The wages here are too low for the hours that are worked. Start there. The earnings they take home after tax are very poor, especially as certain food consumables are going up in price. How can she talk of reducing child poverty if she’s encouraging mothers to bear more children than they can afford to care for.
It’s a strange thing to read about promoting child bearing