The Hungarian energy policy is exemplary throughout Europe, on the continent, our country has the cheapest electricity and the third lowest natural gas price. Thanks to the civil government's utility reduction measure, households can save hundreds of thousands of forints every year, Olivér Hortay, head of the energy policy business at Századvég Gazdaságkutató, told M1 Hírado.
Olivér Hortay said that in the last ten years, Hungary pursued an energy policy different from that of many other EU member states.
The expert added that while in the European Union a climate policy aimed at artificially increasing energy prices was pursued, in Hungary the goal was to keep energy prices low.
Hungary has officially fixed residential tariffs - we call this a reduction in utility costs - and has made significant efforts to restore state ownership in the energy sector, Olivér Hortay said, and then highlighted:
while in 2010 the share of national ownership in the sector was 29 percent, this rose to 56 percent by 2020.
The expert recalled that half a year ago, when the energy crisis broke out in Europe, the European energy policy typical of the last ten years began to "crack and crunch". As a result, more and more EU member states have introduced official prices - for example, this week Slovakia froze residential electricity prices - and the European Commission classified nuclear energy as sustainable.
According to Olivér Hortay, the left-wing proposal to cancel the utility bill is completely absurd in this situation, as it would cause social problems that are hard to imagine.
If, in the current situation, the market prices proposed by the left worked instead of the official prices, then while an average household now spends about HUF 22,000 on energy per month, this would increase to more than HUF 110,000
- emphasized the expert.
So the left-wing proposal would have such serious social consequences that many households would not tolerate.
Source: M1 / hirado.hu
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