Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the board meeting of the Mol group on Thursday at the invitation of the company's management, Bertalan Havasi, head of the Prime Minister's Press Office, informed MTI.
The Prime Minister and his accompanying Minister of Energy Csaba Lantos, Minister of Economic Development Márton Nagy, Political Director Balázs Orbán and János Nagy, State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, were received by President and CEO Zsolt Hernádi and shown around the new Mol Campus headquarters.
At the board meeting held in the presence of the government delegation, Mol's long-term business strategy, the economic and energy crisis caused by the war, the effects of Brussels sanctions, and Hungary's energy security were discussed, Bertalan Havasi said.
As we already reported, the decree was published in the Magyar Közlöny on Wednesday evening, according to which Mol must pay 95% of the difference in Brent and Ural oil prices into the budget.
The decision was made by the Prime Minister himself, so it did not come as a surprise to anyone.
The tax was originally 25 percent, and then it was raised to 40 percent in the summer (when the range of those entitled to refuel at the official price was essentially narrowed down to privately owned cars with Hungarian traffic).
Source: Magyar Hírlap
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