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Guest workers cause problems at Hungary’s best-known spa
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The locals fear that the tourism of Hajdúszoboszló could be affected by the arrival of guest workers for the construction of gigantic projects in Debrecen.
Guest workers in Hajdúszoboszló
A workers’ hotel is already under construction in the town as a private investment. The county government office has given permission for this without informing the municipality. The appearance of the hostels was brought to the attention of one of the MPs, who wrote an angry post on social media, which he later deleted.
“We have practically banned the construction of workers’ hostels in almost the entire city. The way I like to say it is that there hasn’t been this ban earlier because, let’s say, there’s no ban on building a spaceport either, because who would have thought to put that in here?”, said Kálmán Jónás, a local government representative, to ATV News.
No more workers’ hostels
The municipality has asked room rental companies not to set up hostels for guest workers in the city. The problem is that few are doing this because it is a secure source of income.
In Hungary, in Hajdú-Bihar county, the large influx of foreigners already posed an issue in January 2022. In Hajdúnánás, locals were scared because they thought the Indian guest workers staying there were migrants. They later calmed down when they learned that it was not illegal immigrants who had arrived in the town but guest workers from MOL company who had been put up in a local guesthouse.
The title is deceptive! The “guest workers” are not causing any problems, at all. They are merely being put up (assuming by Hungarian contractors) for lodging in areas where the locals take a dim view of foreigners? To work for foreign companies we give significant grants, incentives and other benefits to invest in Hungary.
One of the things we are actually quite good at; attracting direct foreign investment (grants, incentives, low tax, cheap labour – yey!) – https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=64194
So Fidesz deceived Hungarians by saying that the factories would bring jobs while failing to say that the jobs would be done by guest workers. These factories are going to cause huge environmental problems with regard to water consumption and discharge of toxic chemicals. How exactly does the local population benefit? Oh yeah and on top of it Hungarian taxpayers will pay for government subsidies to these factories. Hungary gave an 800 million euros in grant and tax incentives to the Chinese company building the Debrecen factory. The construction companies involved will get some business but once the plant is built that is over.
“Fidesz deceived Hungarians”
Shocking… you can’t deceive somone for this many years…. unless they’re in on it.