PM Orbán wants to settle 300 thousand migrants in Hungary?
The latest industrialisation plan of the government means the cabinet had to find more than 300 thousand guest workers, a Hungarian news outlet estimated. Before, the Hungarian government conducted a successful campaign against economic migrants, saying that “they could not take the jobs of the Hungarians”.
According to 24.hu, PM Orbán said one week earlier that the Hungarian economy needs 500 thousand more workers to fill vacant positions in the job market. He said he would prefer internal resources in that regard. However, there are not enough Hungarian nationals to do so. That is why more than 70 thousand guest workers worked in Hungary last year. And RTL News think they are the solution for Hungary’s reindustrialisation project.
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) regularly measures record-high employment rates. But Orbán said last week that Hungary needs 500 thousand more people in its job market. He added the source for that would be internal reserves, Hungarians living abroad and guest workers, consequently.
Based on a recent analysis of Portfolio, the reserve means unemployed, people having part-time jobs and pensioners. That is 100-150 thousand people, meaning that the remaining 300 thousand must be guest workers, József Hornyák, an expert said.
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Orbán said guest workers might remain in Hungary only temporarily. But most of them would not want to remain. They aim to go farther West for higher wages, Mr Hornyák highlighted. Hungary has the lowest average wages in the EU, József Nógrádi, commercial director of Trenkwalder Hungary, stated. Guest workers come to Hungary even from exotic places Colombia, Mongolia, and the Philippines.
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The government is committed to ensuring Hungarian-made weapons from domestic suppliers to the Hungarian military, the defence minister said on Saturday, adding that meeting that goal was of strategic importance for the country’s security.
Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky visited a shooting range at Táborfalva, in western Hungary, where hand guns and protective gear used by the police and the military were tested, and said on Facebook that the development of “guns, machine guns, light and submachine guns” had started. “You need strength to make peace; we keep working,” the minister said.
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Source: MTI, 24.hu