Socialists call for crisis plan to address emigration

The opposition Socialist Party is calling for a "national crisis plan" to address the emigration of Hungarians. Emigration has now reached a level that clearly constitutes a national crisis situation requiring a national crisis plan, Zsolt Molnar, the deputy head of parliament's national cohesion committee, told a press conference on Monday. "We're no longer talking about hundreds of thousands of people, but rather -- according to a fresh study -- 1-1.5 million, made up of mostly young people, who want to live and work in another country," Molnar said. Those emigrating from Hungary are generally young people fresh out of higher education on the cusp of starting families, he added.