Opposition: Hungarian government again pointing fingers at Brussels

The opposition LMP has called on the government to raise the wages of teachers and other public education employees.

The party’s deputy group leader, Máté Kanász-Nagy, said that Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, “spread uncertainty and pointed the finger at Brussels again” when he told commercial media outlet atv.hu at the end of last week that the government “will do everything it can” to ensure a 32 percent wage hike, but that it depended on “technical approval” by the European Commission.

The wage hike depends only on the government’s will, Kanász-Nagy told a press conference on Wednesday.

“It looks like the cabinet is looking for ways to back out of the wage hike”, despite the interior ministry’s statement that teachers would receive a 32 percent raise from 1 January, he said.

He called on the government to clarify whether teachers’ wages will rise, and by how much.

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5 Comments

Michael Steiner says:

04/01/2024 at 07:04

“Raise the wages”… That’s the Left’s answer to most everything: Just throw taxpayers’ money at it. It fixes every ill, right! As for pointing fingers at Brussels; well, at least the government is not getting PAID by Brussels to pursue its agenda, which run contrary to the Hungarian voters’ wishes, unlike the “opposition.”
"We can't Solve today's problems, with the Mentality that Created them " - Albert Einstein : says:

04/01/2024 at 16:44

Steiner Michael.
You “throw mud make certain its going to stick.”
What FACTS are you prepared to publicly expose to “back up” confirm, the “flippancy” of your commentary ?
REMEMBER your paid up membership of Fidesz and your “adoration” of the Political Ideas and Philosophies – the Ideologies, of Victor Orban.
Educational quote Steiner Michael of Albert Einstein, that should be another “wake up call” to you.
Einstein said:
” We can’t solve todays problems with the mentality that created them.”
Commentaries SHOULD never be written by EMOTION, but in writing be assured of your FACTS.
ostanus says:

06/01/2024 at 16:07

”Raising the wages” is nobody`s answer to almost everything. But it certainly raising wages is an answer to the ever growing issue on non-motivated teachers which is caused by low wages in education sector in Hungary. And everybody knows this, oh well except some right wing conservatives who do not appreciate teachers´ work at all.

No such thing exists as “technical approval” from Brussels for teachers´ wage hikes. Sounds like they are preparing to cancel the promised wage hike and they need a scapegoat for it, and the usual “Brussels bureaucrats” fits well with the Fidesz right wing propaganda.
Larry says:

06/01/2024 at 18:17

Fidesz is shameless in its’ lying as in this case claiming “technical approval” is needed from Brussels. The government is broke. It spends the people’s money on soccer stadiums and funding ethnic Hungarians in other countries. By the way right now the only qualification needed to teach in high school is a high school diploma. Fidesz is churning out a new generation of uneducated dolts because that is what they need to vote for them.
Anonymous says:

08/01/2024 at 17:48

People in this comment section acting like voting for a new government will get an official appointed to their kitchen to wash their dishes for them.

You have an EU passport, right? If you hate Hungary so much, then leave and go work in France or Sweden. I hear their cities are lovely. May you live in interesting times.