The opposition Tisza party has attacked the Hungarian government’s utility price caps in Brussels at the first opportunity, an MEP of ruling Fidesz said on Facebook on Saturday.
Deutsch: Tisza proposed to scrap price caps
Should price caps be scrapped as proposed in Tisza’s programme, “that would take two million forints from Hungarian families every year,” Tamás Deutsch said on Facebook.
Thanks to the measure, Hungarian families are paying the lowest electricity and gas prices in the European Union, he said.
“The dollar left” had earlier also tried to attack the utility price caps from Brussels, Deutsch said, pledging that the government would “protect utility price caps against Tisza as it did against the dollar left”.
Magyar: You are lying, as usual
Deutsch then concluded, “The Tisza is the new DK [Democratic Coalition-ed.], (Péter) Magyar is the new Gyurcsány [former PM-ed.]” The Facebook post received a reply from Péter Magyar. The chairman of the Tisza Party wrote to Deutsch: “You are lying, as usual.”
High price above price caps
It is important to note that energy in Hungary is price capped up to 2523 kilowatt hours per year for electricity. The price of 1 kWh of electricity below the consumption limit (210 kWh/month) is HUF 36, above that it almost doubles to HUF 70.1.
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Note the Russian designed propaganda using the label “dollar left” to subconsiously demonize the US as a malicious influence. Fidesz has been pushing this for years to brainwash the public and as Goebbels taught if you say a lie often enough people will start to believe it. Oh Hungarians, Deutsch Tamas is telling you that the Russians are your brothers and the Americans are your enemy. What happened since you got your freedom in 1990 from those Russian bastards? Did you lose your minds?
Why are Tisza party members anti-Hungarian? Why would members of Tisza party want to impoverish Hungarian people? Remember the anti-patriotic action of Tisza party on Election Day.
Price caps – that´s a socialist-marxist thing, right? Is this now all of a sudden “good”, @mariavontheresa ?
Of course, the globalist-socialist dirtbags never sleep. They ceaselessly look for ways to put the screwjie on the little guy.
Didn’t take Magyar long to show his true colors… They’re all cut from the same cloth, which is not surprising being that they are all paid by the same DOLLAR LEFT (I guess saying this makes me a Russian stooge as well LOL!) to work for everybody except their own nation.
YUCK!!!
Yes Maria, and they are eating the cats and dogs of Hungarians too. You believe everything they say, or just repeat it like a parrot?
I only deal in facts. The difference in energy supply between Hungary and the rest of EU is that Hungry has a reliable supplier and has sufficient amount of fuel for the winter. That cannot be said of other EU countries. Because of price negotiated between Hungary and Russia, it is Hungary’s right to set the price according to the cost of supply. If other EU countries want their citizens to freeze in the winter, it is their right.
Well done FIDESZ for ensuring Hungary’s energy supply for a hard winter.
The rest of the EU all have reliable suppliers of oil and gas. Russia is not the only oil and gas producer in this world. All it was was a shift of business from the war aggressor to others. Hungary buys “war oil” and the rest of Europe buys “peace oil”.
I’m not aware of a single EU country without a reliable energy supply. Nobody is warning that they have indequate supplies to see them through winter, moreover, much has been made of rising energy prices without enough recognition placed on the fact that governments widely subisidised the price of energy when it was excessively high. Bills went up, but not to the level that people were generally unable to afford them and targeted programmes for the poorest in society meant that they weren’t left behind either. In France bills virtually didn’t rise at all. I’m reading a lot of propaganda about how British pensioners are/were freezing in their homes which is manifestly untrue. Britain was already not dependent on Russian energy at the outbreak of hostilities, the cost of energy went up globally irrespective of its origin (including those supplies arriving from Russia to Hungary as they’re also priced on the basis of an international market). Russia is a ‘reliable’ supplier of energy because it wants payment in exchange for delivery giving them much needed cash in order to prosecute a war, it’s not because Russia is an inherently reliable country, quite the opposite actually. Any other energy supplier would be just as reliable because they also want to get paid, with the great advantage there isn’t an implied threat they could turn off the taps for geopolitical reasons, nor would there be a dependency on ‘unreliable’ Ukraine keeping its pipeline both serviceable and open. It’s nonsense to claim that Hungary has to maintain good relations with Russia in order to ensure energy supply; there are countless other possibilities open to Hungary that other European countries have availabled themselves of and now that market prices have stabilised, these could be no more expensive and are quite possibily cheaper than the forward countracts Hungary has entered into with Russia at a time of market stress resulting in a high strike price. We won’t know the truth for a long time as the contracts are hidden from sight for spurious reasons of national security, we can only guess, but it’s a guarantee that the Russians won’t have offered any discounts from the goodness of their heart, it’ll be a contract strictly on commercial terms, as one would in any case expect.
Londonsteve, last year many German seniors died due to lack of heat. The temperature that seniors was regulated, however, was not warm enough to keep that vulnerable population safe. This was published about a year ago DW.com a German newspaper.