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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."
Utility Price Reduction
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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”
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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
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Hungarian government schemes see families save 550 euros each year on utility bills
The effect of the price cuts means that public money which utility companies had previously siphoned off as profit out of the country was now being returned to the pockets of consumers
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PM Orbán: 'Hungary will not allow Brussels to increase our energy prices'
The Hungarian government will not allow Brussels to phase out statutory fixed energy prices which would mean an end to reductions in household utility bills
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Hungary's poverty line has dropped over the past three years
The number of people living under the poverty line in Hungary has continued to drop since 2013