Orbán’s Fidesz outraged: Péter Magyar’s Tisza would end the utility price cap scheme?

The Tisza Party has voted against Hungary’s utility price caps in Brussels, the European parliamentary delegation of the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats (KDNP) said late on Thursday, referring to an EP declaration on the UN’s climate conference, COP29, held in Baku earlier this month.

The declaration called for phasing out household energy subsidies such as Hungary’s utility price caps, the statement said.

“Such a proposal would gravely harm Hungarian families, so MEPs of the Fidesz-KDNP delegation have rejected it,” they said.

Farmers, companies or families can’t shoulder the costs of the green transition alone, the statement said.

The declaration adopted on Thursday calls on member states to stop using oil, coal and gas as soon as possible, and says that energy subsidies such as the Hungarian utility price caps are “too high”, demanding that they are scrapped, the MEP group said.

“That [Tisza leader] Péter Magyar and the party should put their names on a proposal like that it outrageous,” the statement said.

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