Brazil's President called Katalin Novák's visit a "great honor," adding that Hungary and Brazil had common interests such as defending the home country, as well as protecting families and promoting freedom.Continue reading
Hungary’s family policy aims to restore the social recognition of raising a family by offering financial support, tax cuts, and an expanded nursery and daycare network, President Katalin Novák said in Sao Paulo on Tuesday.
Addressing the Academia Paulista de Letras, the Hungarian President outlined the achievements and goals of Hungary’s family policy. She stressed that the Hungarian population has been decreasing each and every year since 1981, therefore it was necessary to stop this decline.
Katalin Novák stressed that the social recognition of having children must be restored, and it was necessary to ensure that it is not those without children who will be financially better off.
Hungary is helping to achieve this by, among other things, offering tax cuts, financial support for people to buy homes, reducing loans, and expanding the network of daycares.
The Hungarian President noted that Hungary’s constitution, the Fundamental Law, defines marriage as the voluntary union of a man and a woman, and declares all life protected from the moment of conception.
The Fundamental Law has been amended recently to contain the definition of the father as a man and the mother as a woman, she added.
Novák said that Hungary spends over six percent of its GDP on family support, adding that the number of marriages doubled and abortions halved in the past decade, while the readiness to raise children was growing steadily.
“Brazil is the world champion in football, we are the world champions in supporting families,” she said, adding that Hungary wants to make childbearing more popular.
Novák was welcomed to the Academia Paulista de Letras and introduced by academy head Jose Renato Nalini.
Ahead of the event, Novák handed the Hungarian Order of Merit, Knight’s Cross, to Ferenc Hegyi, the head of the Hungarian House in Sao Paulo, in recognition of his work preserving the national identity of Hungarians living there.
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