President Novák: Being pro-family should be ‘national minimum’

Being pro-family should be a “national minimum”, President Katalin Novák said in her address to the 5th Demographic Summit in Budapest on Thursday.

“We are here today as allies of each other and families,” the president said, adding: “Today we are fighting the freedom fight of families.”

The “demographic winter” faced by the developed world is currently turning into “an ice age”, but without children there is no future, Novák said.

“We are increasingly defenceless against the demographic ice age,” she said. “The pillars of our lives, the foundations of are Christian culture are beginning to crack, and if we don’t protect the values we believe to be impermeable, we will voluntarily sacrifice ourselves before we become victims of the coming ice age.”

As the heirs to their freedom-fighting ancestors, Hungarians have learned that freedom does not come for free, and it is something they have to fight for again and again, she said.

Modelled after the 1848 revolution, Novák listed twelve demands of Hungarian families.

Source: MTI