UPDATE 1-Hungarian PM announces new loan, tax measures to boost birth rate
Orban, one of the most outspoken critics of mass immigration to Europe from the Middle East and Asia, also said that his government aimed to keep economic growth 2 percent above the European Union average in the coming years despite an expected global slowdown. "There are fewer and fewer children born in Europe. For the West, the answer (to that challenge) is immigration. For every missing child there should be one coming in and then the numbers will be fine," he said in his annual state of the nation speech.
"But we do not need numbers. We need Hungarian children," Orban said, announcing a seven-point programme of benefits for families and newly-weds. The new measures include the expansion of a loan programme for families with at least two children to help them buy homes, subsidies for car purchases and waiving personal income tax for women raising at least four children.
Women below 40 who marry for the first time will be eligible for a 10 million forint ($36,000) subsidised loan, Orban said. A third of the debt will be forgiven when a second child is born and the entire loan waived after the third child. "This is the answer for Hungarians, not immigration," Orban said. ($1 = 281.4800 forints) (Reporting by Gergely Szakacs; editing by Jason Neely and Gareth Jones)
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