Strong families make a strong country, Hungarian justice minister says

A country is strong if its families are strong, Justice Minister Bence Tuzson said at the Tranzit Festival at Tihany, at Lake Balaton, on Friday, adding that this was why Hungary’s government was doing its utmost to keep Hungarian families strong.

Tuzson said the “attacks” levelled at Hungary’s child protection efforts were linked to the “imperial way of thinking”, arguing that it was easier to “build a global world” if families weren’t strong.

In response to a question, the minister said ongoing developments in the European Union, “the constant attacks against Hungary and attempts to put pressure on it” did not just serve the aim of “globalism gaining ground”, but also the “restoration of the strength of the big countries”.

“There have always been big and small countries where the big ones put pressure on the smaller ones, but the establishment of the European Union gave rights to the smaller ones as well, making them equal to the bigger ones,” Tuzson said. He said the bigger countries now wanted to restore their past hegemony “where they make the decisions which the smaller ones accept”.