Hungarian President emphasises importance of traditional families

In March, the Hungarian parliament chose its first female president, Katalin Novák. She took office on Tuesday. Who is the new Hungarian president?

As a working mother, Hungary's Minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, her husband and children come first. Then politics.

Hungarian women who request an abortion will have to listen to the heartbeat of their unborn foetus before they can start the procedure of ending their pregnancy. That has become mandatory by a new decree of the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.