PM Orbán: Brussels bureaucrats “vomit blood” from Hungary’s utility fee cut scheme

A government decision could be made next week about “rescuing small businesses from the weight of higher utility fees” so that they, too, could get the lower prices, PM Viktor Orbán said today in his regular interview in Kossuth Rádió. He added that Brussels bureaucrats “vomit blood” from Hungary’s utility fee cut scheme because “multinationals dictate” in Brussels. He said Hungary’s government was on the side of the people, whereas the left wing was on the side of multinationals.

“In the end even the anti-vaxxers will realise that they either get the jab or die,” Orbán said, and noted that next week 101 hospitals would offer the vaccination with no prior registration to anyone turning up. People against vaccination could be convinced that they have no more reason to distrust coronavirus vaccines than the ones they received in childhood, such as against mumps or measles, the prime minister said.

Orbán said that health experts were expected to determine “around December” if children between 5-12 could be inoculated and in case of a positive answer

parents would have an opportunity to vaccinate their children.

Hungary currently has 10 million doses of vaccine, sufficient to provide “not only booster jabs but fourth shots to everybody”, Orban said.

On another subject, the prime minister said that “nobody is happy” with a recent ban introduced in law enforcement and health services preventing staff from quitting their jobs, but argued that “now we have a situation in which certain positions must not be abandoned”. Orbán said that the infectious diseases hospital in Kiskunhalas would not currently be reopened unless “some bigger problem occurs” or if other hospitals become overcrowded. In another development, Orbán said that well above 80 percent of Hungarians welcomed the recently introduced cap on fuel prices.