Private individuals in Hungary will be charged below the actual market prices for their gas and electricity consumption even if it exceeds the average level under which a price cap...
All households will continue to pay reduced prices up to average consumption, the participants said.
Detailing the government’s seven-point plan to keep household utility bills low, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, said domestic gas production will be increased from an annual 1.5...
Tamás Deutsch has hailed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s firm stance on the EU’s sixth sanctions package against Russia that allowed Hungary to “protect the cap on household utility bills”.
PM Orbán said the new funds would finance the government’s public utility cuts program and development projects for the military.
The energy crisis has prompted 24 European Union member states to “follow the Hungarian example” and introduce measures to cut household utility prices.
The Visegrad Group countries at the European Council summit in Brussels will be fighting to secure lower energy prices for families.
The prime minister said the European Commission’s planned Fit for 55 climate package and resulting high energy prices “will destroy” Europe’s middle classes.
“They talk about climate protection when they are introducing a new tax which will cost Hungarians a monthly HUF 32,000 (EUR 90),” István Hollik said.
Hungarian consumers will continue to pay one of the lowest gas prices in the European Union.
Gergely Gulyás said the Hungarian economy is out-performing all expectations, and this is something that elderly age groups should also benefit from.
The Hungarian government will send questionnaires to households next week in the latest round of national consultations