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by anandrew 1673 days ago
> Is this true in most European countries?

Sort of. For an example that's not exactly worker rights, Hungary has a fertility rate of 1.52 births/woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1. Yet when the right-wing government enacted policies to increase it, it was attacked as "xenophobic" [1] and that it "reeks of the 1930s" [2].

It is part of a trend of delegitimizing any kind of favoritism of a country toward its own people.

[1] https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1095495521748353024

[2] https://www.thelocal.se/20190216/hungary-family-plan-reeks-o...