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Household energy bills to remain low until end of April
The energy ministry is focused on ensuring that households continue to benefit from caps on their energy bills while guaranteeing supply security.
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Government welcomes Fiscal Council’s approval of draft budget amendments
Gergely Gulyás said the budget earmarks more than 2,600 billion forints (EUR 6.5bn) for keeping household utility bills low.
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Government expands household utility price caps
The household utility price caps will be extended to state and local council-owned rental apartment buildings.
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Gulyás: Hungary opposes Brussels climate tax
Gergely Gulyás said energy prices are soaring all across Europe, resulting in a “utility crisis."
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Europe’s on the brink of an energy 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.
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ECJ rules that Hungary’s law on utility fees does not violate EU regulations
The innovation and technology ministry welcomed the ruling “in favor of Hungary in its dispute against the European Commission”.
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The government has granted a 12,000 HUF reduction on utility bills in the second quarter of 2018
Pensioners will also receive Erzsébet vouchers worth 10,000 HUF again, and the value of this initiative is some 30 billion HUF
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Hungarian government receives a record 1.68 million responses to "national consultation" questionnaire
The government intends to continue tackling illegal migration and to maintain the right to regulate taxes, wages and utility prices as national competencies
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More than one million Hungarians have so far returned their national consultation questionnaires
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
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The national consultation and why we listen to the people
The national consultation has become an especially useful method in recent years to invite citizen participation in the decision-making process between election cycles
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address in Parliament before the start of daily business [full text in English]
Budapest, February 20, 2017
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Hungarians should decide their future not Brussels
The Hungarian government wants the people to decide on issues that define their future rather than “Brussels sneaking in legislation”
Prime Minister
PM Orbán: Hungary faces five major 'attacks' in 2017
Delivering his nineteenth annual state of the nation address, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary’s main task in 2017 would be to fend off five major “attacks” against the country