There is a utility and energy crisis all over Europe, even the middle class is affected by the rising costs - stated Dániel Deák, XXI. Század Intézet's leading analyst, who says that it is important to emphasize this because many people still tend to just wave at the news about how expensive gasoline and utilities are in the West, since people there earn more, so they can pay for it.
Today, however, this is no longer the case: the multifold increase in utility costs and gasoline prices that are slowly scraping below HUF 1,000 represent such a heavy burden even in Western countries that fewer and fewer people are able to bear.
In Hungary, on the other hand, people are protected by utility cuts and a gas price cap, which even the Austrians look on with envy. It is not surprising that Austrian motorists immediately began to complain that they could no longer cross the border for cheap gasoline. This also clearly shows that rising prices are also a serious burden for in-laws.
The analyst drew attention to the fact that Viktor Orbán keeps his election promise and does everything in order to maintain the utility reduction that is essential for people. Accordingly, in contrast to the politics of the left, there were no austerity measures after the elections, but the maintenance of the previous economic policy, part of which was the increased involvement of companies producing extra profits in the public burden.
The left-wing propaganda press also got confused by the question, first they wrote that there is no such thing as extra profit, and then a day later they started writing about how much extra profit the energy companies produced, for example. The situation of the left is further complicated by the fact that, almost at the same time as the Hungarian government's announcement, the British government also announced that it would tax the extra profit of energy companies. The Hungarian solutions are therefore contagious, and more and more people are looking at them as guidelines.
"In order to maintain the sovereign Hungarian economic policy, it is essential that Hungary resists the current Brussels sanctions policy and rejects the original oil embargo plans," stated Dániel Deák. "According to the leaked information, Brussels is giving way and it is expected that no sanctions will apply to crude oil arriving via pipelines, so our country is essentially exempt. This is a serious success and with this Viktor Orbán represented not only Hungarian but also pan-European interests.
Europe's competitiveness would collapse completely if it introduced an oil and gas embargo against Russia, because while energy is significantly cheaper for its competitors, everything on the old continent is extremely expensive. If this situation only continues to deteriorate, Europe's competitiveness will suffer. We can only hope that Hungary will protect Europe from self-destructive policies, similar to the migration crisis of 2015, when our country stopped hundreds of thousands of migrants at the southern border."
The political scientist sees that the domestic left perceives nothing of these phenomena, they are so disorganized that they have almost no connection with reality, and are unable to interpret political processes either. "So they also talk back and forth about the oil embargo, they are unable to form a clear position. However, we should have no doubts: if they had won on April 3, they would have met Brussels' expectations without any resistance, even if they would have violated Hungary's fundamental interests," said Dániel Deák.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
Author: Zsolt Sütő-Nagy
Image: HírTV
