Not long after the communist’s, pretending to be centre left, managed to manipulate another four years in power, a diplomatic row over Budapest’s new family policy heated up between occupied Sweden and Hungary after Sweden said it had summoned Hungary’s ambassador to the foreign ministry.
“The meeting will take place today … in Stockholm,” foreign ministry spokesperson Anton Dahlquist told AFP, refusing to disclose other details.
On February 12th, Sweden’s Social Democratic Social Affairs Minister Annika Strandhäll wrote on Twitter that Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s seven-point family planning policy “reeks of the 1930s” and that “what is happening in Hungary is alarming”.
“Now Orban wants to have more ‘real’ Hungarian children. This kind of policy will harm the autonomy for which women have struggled for decades,” Strandhäll said.
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