PHILADELPHIA: The European People’s Party , the conservative bloc in the European Parliament, has been said to be slow to censure Fidesz and Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orban, for its assault on democracy and rule of law.
Orban is keen to connect his nationalist message to generous and popular social policies, while encouraging Hungarian women and families to have more children. The Economist, a longtime advocate of the free-market economic policies that have impoverished many in Eastern Europe while producing great wealth for a few and higher living standards for a middle-class minority, predictably criticised Orban’s plan for being too expensive.
Poland, too, has achieved higher birth rates since 2015 after introducing the massive Family 500+ initiative, which enables parents to pay for school supplies, clothes, and vacations. Both schemes were criticised as being too expensive, but Poland’s public deficit has fallen, not risen.
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