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Government press briefing: Pensioners to receive bonus in November
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Hungary’s pensioners will receive a bonus in November, the government office chief announced at his regular press briefing on Thursday.
János Lázár argued that the national economy was doing well, and insisted that “pensioners must be given a share of the common success and assets”.
On another subject, Lázár said that
the European Union’s mandatory migrant quota “has failed”.
He argued that the European Commission has “declared victory” concerning the mandatory quota but in reality it has failed, since Malta has been the only country that fulfilled it. At the same time, the EC has filed infringement procedures against three countries only, he added.
Lázár also announced that the government has started posting its questionnaires in a national survey concerning the “Soros plan”,
and encouraged voters to participate. He insisted that “consultations on migration” were of a special significance because “those having a distinct position will support the government’s policy” and added that the government needed continual feedback concerning the migrant issue.
On the subject of debates around offers of holiday opportunities to the children of refugees, Lázár said that “people with refugee status in Hungary can rely on the Hungarian state”. He said that organisations that “had selected a boarding house in a town to send children to rather than approaching the Hungarian state” were “irresponsible”. He also blamed the organiser of the planned camp for not providing sufficient information to local people, which resulted in an uproar among residents.
Referring to a recent visit by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to Romania, Lázár said that
the government would use 21 billion forints (EUR 67.4m) to improve mostly church-run creches and kindergartens for ethnic Hungarian children in neighbouring countries.