Orbán made announcements regarding the soaring inflation in Hungary
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in an interview to public radio on Friday, said he has asked the governor of the central bank and the finance minister to take measures to cut inflation “by half at the least” before the end of 2023.
Inflation caused by sanctions
Orbán attributed rampant inflation to European Union sanctions against Russia, adding that “if only the EU saw” the connection between the two then some prices, including energy prices, “could be halved within days”.
Orbán said his government was experienced in handling inflation as it had “inherited 10-15 percent inflation in 1998”. Inflation forces families to live off their savings, he said, adding that anti-inflationary measures therefore were “family protection measures”.
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Orbán: Hungary involving public in decision-making
tOrbán said he government habitually consulted the public on important matters and used the outcome as a political tool “in fights in Brussels”. He told public radio that the sanctions against Russia had been introduced in an undemocratic way, based on decisions by the “Brussels bureaucrats and the European elite”.
“There’s still democracy in Europe and it matters what people think,” the prime minister said. In Hungary, the public is regularly involved in decision-making “about the most difficult questions facing Europe”, be it migration, the handling of the Covid-19 epidemic or the current sanctions, he added.
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Source: MTI
Half of Inflation is caused by all the election’s bribes you gave.
“Brussels bureaucrats and the European elite” – again ???
The enemy is not in Brussels – they’re the ones who keep us afloat (and why Mr. Orban proposed we only leave the EU after we become a net contributor!
Yes to Cigány ország and yes to Norbert.
I hardly know where to start with my own comment as the tripe that spouts from the mouth of the PM is, at times, absolutely incredible….. dismiss; distort; distract; dismay.
He does all four……. and that’s where I’ll leave it…..
Dude will find every excuse possible, just to to not admit his government is responsible for such a huge inflation. I am not saying there will be no inflation, but their decision made so bad.