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Sweden said Wednesday it had summoned Hungary's ambassador to the foreign ministry amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries over Budapest's new family policy. "The meeting will take place today ... in Stockholm," foreign ministry spokesman Anton Dahlquist told AFP, refusing to disclose other details.

On February 12, Sweden's Social Democratic Social Affairs Minister Annika Strandhall 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," Strandhall said. Several days later, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Sweden's ambassador had been summoned and informed that Strandhall's comments were "unacceptable".

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2019


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