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.
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
Budapest, February 20, 2017
The Hungarian government wants the people to decide on issues that define their future rather than “Brussels sneaking in legislation”
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