Government holds energy price caps until end of 2023
The government reviewed the energy situation and concluded that the price caps could be maintained until end-2023 and even beyond.
The government reviewed the energy situation and concluded that the price caps could be maintained until end-2023 and even beyond.
Following yesterday’s government meeting, Gergely Gulyás, the minister heading Prime Minister Orbán’s office and Alexandra Szentkirályi, spokesperson for the Hungarian government, held a Government Info session on new measures decided...
The Brussels-based Bruegel Institute has recently released an updated dataset summarizing European countries' responses to the energy crisis, which has sparked controversy in Hungary.
The energy ministry is focused on ensuring that households continue to benefit from caps on their energy bills while guaranteeing supply security.
Gergely Gulyás said the budget earmarks more than 2,600 billion forints (EUR 6.5bn) for keeping household utility bills low.
The household utility price caps will be extended to state and local council-owned rental apartment buildings.
Gergely Gulyás said energy prices are soaring all across Europe, resulting in a “utility crisis."
As the utility cost reduction program comes under siege from Brussels and Hungary’s unlikely, Gyurcsány-led liberal-far-right coalition, energy prices in Europe continue to surge.
The innovation and technology ministry welcomed the ruling “in favor of Hungary in its dispute against the European Commission”.
Pensioners will also receive Erzsébet vouchers worth 10,000 HUF again, and the value of this initiative is some 30 billion HUF
The government intends to continue tackling illegal migration and to maintain the right to regulate taxes, wages and utility prices as national competencies
The government launched its survey dubbed “Let’s Stop Brussels” on April 1, sending questionnaires to the whole voter base of about 8 million people and providing a website to answer the questions
The national consultation has become an especially useful method in recent years to invite citizen participation in the decision-making process between election cycles