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Fidesz-KDNP MEPs: Tisza Party voted against Hungary's utility price caps in Brussels

An EP declaration at the UN's climate conference, COP29, called for phasing out household energy subsidies such as Hungary's utility price caps.

The European parliamentary delegation of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats (KDNP) said the Tisza Party has voted against Hungary's utility price caps in Brussels, referring to an EP declaration at the UN's climate conference, COP29, held in Baku earlier this month.

The declaration called for phasing out household energy subsidies such as Hungary's utility price caps.

"Such a proposal would gravely harm Hungarian families, so MEPs of the Fidesz-KDNP delegation have rejected it," the delegation said in a statement.

Farmers, companies or families can't shoulder the costs of the green transition alone, the statement said.

The declaration adopted on Thursday calls on member states to stop using oil, coal and gas as soon as possible, and says that energy subsidies such as the Hungarian utility price caps are "too high", demanding that they are scrapped, the MEP group said.

"That [Tisza leader] Peter Magyar and the party should put their names on a proposal like that is outrageous," the statement said.