Free test tube fertilization (IVF), for those who have difficulty in having children should be introduced from the summer of 2020. Generous contributions have already been offered to families with many children. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hopes that the new support will do his best to raise the birth rate.

There are those Hungarians who are skeptical that the support will make any major difference.

"People overestimate the positive effects of assisted fertilization," says sociologist Ivett Szalma, who has researched the impact of IVF treatments on demographics.

"People have no money"

Zita Pataki, program manager in Hungary who has tried to conceive with test tube fertilization. also does not believe that IVF alone can solve Hungary's problems.

- People have no money, they do not earn enough and can not pay the rent. If they cannot support themselves, how should they be able to have children?

Gergely Karácsony, Budapest's new opposition mayor, is also critical of the family policy that Orbán's party Fidesz drives.

"Fidesz has no real family policy, because it only supports families in the upper middle class," he says in an interview with SVT News.

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Last fall, the opposition in Budapest and ten other Hungarian big cities unexpectedly won. Now Budapest's new mayor Gergely Karácsony has been in power for four months Photo: SVT.

See the entire report from Hungary in the clip at the top of the article.