Csaba Dömötör, an MEP of the ruling Fidesz, said in Brussels on Wednesday that Brussels "is once again demanding that Hungary scrap its utility price caps scheme".
According to MTI, Dömötör said the European Commission had published its "economic demands" addressed to Hungary on June 4, "dubbed country-specific recommendations in Brussels speak", and "everything included in it would be harmful for Hungarian families".
In addition to scrapping the scheme capping utility bills, Brussels demands that Hungary wean itself off eastern energy sources, "without mentioning who should pay the higher fees that would result from energy being acquired from other sources", Domotor said. "They don't say anything because they know that it would be Hungarian families," he added.
Dömötör said the EC had yielded to the lobby of multinationals and demanded that Hungary withdraw sectoral taxes, discontinuing the current principle that multinationals accumulating extra profits should take their part in sharing burdens.
The EC recommendation also includes the scrapping of interest rate caps, he said, adding that if Hungary were to do this, the instalments would significantly increase. "Additionally, they demand that the government cut home creation support, but they say nothing about how families should be helped instead in acquiring a home," he said.
Dömötör said the EC and the "grand coalition of the European People's Party and the left" wanted member states to pay the amount spent on the war and wanted to make room for the costs of Ukraine's accession. "All of this in a way to ensure that corporations with strong lobbying power also profit from it," he added.
He said the opposition Tisza Party was a part of "Brussels's policy of tributes, not only because they sit in the same party with Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber, but a series of votes and statements also prove this".