"Hungarians’ Money Should Be Spent Not on Ukraine, but on Hungarian Children"

Hungarians’ money should be spent not on Ukraine, but on Hungarian children, because Hungary’s future is built on them, stated Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto on Friday in Bony, north-western Hungary.

Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, delivers a speech at the the foundation stone laying ceremony for the expansion of the local kindergarten in Bony (Photo: MTI/Istvan Filep)

Hungary’s future lies in families and is built on children, Peter Szijjarto said at the foundation stone laying ceremony for the expansion of the local kindergarten in Bony. He highlighted that despite the difficulties of recent years, Hungary has rolled out a world champion family support system.

Even in this extremely difficult period, we have insisted that the decision to have children must not put anyone at a disadvantage compared to those who have not made that decision,

he said. It is not an exaggeration to say that his foreign counterparts listen with mouths agape when he speaks about the Hungarian government’s family support measures, he added.

Nowhere else in the world is there a personal income tax exemption for mothers with multiple children for their entire lives. Nowhere else in the world is there a prenatal loan. Nowhere else in the world is there a family tax relief like in Hungary, which we doubled at the beginning of the year. Nowhere else in the world is there a home-creation program like the one we launched in Hungary, and nowhere else in the world is there a system where a mother's previous gross income is converted into net income until her child is six months old,

he listed.

At the same time, Peter Szijjarto warned that in the current fragile situation, all achievements to date could easily be put at risk. "If the war taking place in our neighborhood, God forbid, escalates, or if in the future someone does not say no to financing the war, then we could lose everything," he said.

Therefore, in the interest of Hungarian families, we must continue a policy aimed at standing up for peace and saying no to war, and saying no to taking Hungarian people’s money out of the country and using it to operate another country,

he continued. "That's why we will say no to every proposal that would send Hungarian people’s money to Ukraine, because that money would be taken away from Hungarian families. This would entail the abolition of tax exemptions, home creation schemes, and tax allowances," he added.

Peter Szijjarto then also touched on the need to protect children and families from insane ideologies, which, he said, are being imposed on them from a very young age.

We will not allow sensitization in kindergartens, stuffing children's head with stories that begin with ‘the prince and the prince.’ We refuse to go against truths that are thousands of years old, such as that a person is born male or female, or that a family consists of a father, a mother, and children, where the mother is a woman and the father is a man. And we will not give in to any blackmail or any threats on this issue,

he insisted.

Finally, he highlighted that in recent years the number of kindergarten places has been increased from 370,000 to 390,000, and that within the framework of the Hungarian Village Program, special attention is being paid to kindergarten developments. "Here in Bony, 96 children attend kindergarten, and as a result of the fifty million forint support provided by the government, the expansion of the kindergarten will now begin. With this, we want to achieve that young people and families who live here will stay here, work here, and prosper here," he concluded.

Cover photo: Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Photo: MTI)