Foreign workers swarming into Hungary

There is a good chance that there will be more foreign citizens asking for a residence permit than in the previous year. Based on data received so far, the number of foreigners who came to Hungary can be 22 pc higher, which converts to 15 thousand more people.

The government helps

The Hungarian government has been fighting against migration for years saying that foreigners take the jobs of the Hungarians. In Hungary, the labour shortage is an ever-growing problem even though the government tries to attract pensioners and mothers at home back to the labour market with tax decrease and tax relief. However, such measures did not result in a radical change of trends yet – privatbankar.hu reported.

It will be years until those babies who were born thanks to the government’s Family Protection Action Plan enter the job market and can ease the

labour shortage affecting almost every sector of the Hungarian economy.

Therefore, even though in words the Hungarian government is against migration, in reality it tries to attract as many foreign individuals to come to work in Hungary as possible.

For example, the government helped to recruit 5,000 Ukrainian guest workers from the state budget. Furthermore, the Ministry of Finance increased the quota of those foreigners who can work in Hungary and widened the number of those professions in which they can be employed. They added that this is just a framework, and it depends on the entrepreneurs how many foreign citizens they employ and added that they do not use the full quota.

Interestingly, nobody knows how many foreign citizens are employed at the moment in Hungary. Even though  members of the government