“The decline in Europe’s population should not be solved through migration, but through family policy”, the Ministry of Human Capacities’ Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs Katalin Novák stated in an interview published in Italian daily Veritá on Monday.
The future of Hungary lies in Hungarian children, and supporting children and people raising children is a priority goal, Katalin Novák said on Kossuth Radio’s programme “Sunday Paper” (Vasárnapi újság).
We have managed to achieve that the draft resolution adopted at the congress of the European People’s Party lays down the importance of the approach that the primary solution to demographic challenges lies in family-centred policies, not in migration, Katalin Novák said at the EPP congress in Helsinki.
The national consultation regarding the promotion and protection of families with children will start this week. The postal service will start delivering the questionnaires to members of the public in the next few days, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities announced at a press conference held on Monday in Budapest.
“Hungary spent more than the EU average on education in 2016: it spent 4.9 percent of its GDP on education, which represents 10.5 percent of total public spending”, Deputy State Secretary for Public Education Zoltán Maruzsa from the Ministry of Human Capacities said on Tuesday citing the Education and Training Monitor 2018 report published by the European Commission.
There are sufficient places in the institutions that provide care for the homeless. The state provides 19,000 places in total, and will spend HUF 9.1 billion on helping the needy this year, Attila Fülöp said at a press conference.
“The OECD has issued a positive report on the state of education in Hungary; the conclusions included in the report caused no surprised to the education administration”, Minister of State for Public Education Zoltán Maruzsa said at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
The flower carriage of the Year of Families conveys the message that for the government families come first, and Hungary’s future rests on Hungarian children and on the responsible raising of children, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities said on Monday in Debrecen when she introduced the composition before the start of the carnival procession.
In relation to the number of children under the age of three years, there have never before been this many crèche places in Hungary, the Minister of State for Family and Youth Affairs at the Ministry of Human Capacities said at a press conference held in a crèche in the 1st district of Budapest.
The Deputy State Secretary for Social Inclusion of the Ministry of Human Capacities stressed the importance of remembering on the international Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday in Budapest.