Strong families make a strong country, Hungarian justice minister says

A country is strong if its families are strong, Justice Minister Bence Tuzson said at the Tranzit Festival at Tihany, at Lake Balaton, on Friday, adding that this was why Hungary’s government was doing its utmost to keep Hungarian families strong.

Tuzson said the “attacks” levelled at Hungary’s child protection efforts were linked to the “imperial way of thinking”, arguing that it was easier to “build a global world” if families weren’t strong.

In response to a question, the minister said ongoing developments in the European Union, “the constant attacks against Hungary and attempts to put pressure on it” did not just serve the aim of “globalism gaining ground”, but also the “restoration of the strength of the big countries”.

“There have always been big and small countries where the big ones put pressure on the smaller ones, but the establishment of the European Union gave rights to the smaller ones as well, making them equal to the bigger ones,” Tuzson said. He said the bigger countries now wanted to restore their past hegemony “where they make the decisions which the smaller ones accept”.

Tuzson said the issues of the corporate tax rate and the introduction of a minimum tax “are also pointing in this direction”, arguing that these were meant to erase the existing competitive advantage enjoyed by smaller countries. He said the introduction of a minimum income was also another element of these kinds of efforts, as its introduction would mean that member states would not get a say in how high it would be, which would hurt their competitiveness and ultimately their sovereignty.

Meanwhile, he said the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament was “under constant pressure”, but they would “only get stronger” and would be in “a much better position” next year after the general elections in Austria and Czechia. He added that there could even be “a complete European turnaround” by the time of the next European parliamentary elections.

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