In his last point, Orban presented a child support subsidy payable for grandparents, encouraging them to help families in raising the children.
The demographic decline of Hungary, with its population dropping below the psychological threshold of 10 million people a few years ago and decreasing each year by several tens of thousands, is the main challenge for the head of government, who was elected last April to the third term in power.
Orban also praised Hungary's economic growth and performance. "Our national pride also has an economic foundation: Hungary is only at the 88th place among the world's countries in terms of population, but the 34th in terms of exports."
"In order to catch up with Western Europe, our economic growth has to surpass that of the EU (European Union) average by at least 2 percent each year," he added.
Hungary's gross domestic product in 2018 will be published in March, but experts already know from preliminary figures that it will be comfortably over 4 percent.
The prime minister also touched upon migration, which his government is fiercely opposed to. "We see the emergence of a Christian-Muslim world in immigrant countries with a constantly shrinking Christian ratio. However, we Central Europeans still have our own future."
Orban repeatedly declared that division in the 28-member EU is increasing over migration-related issues.(1 U.S. dollar = 281.63 HUF)
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