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This is how the government wants to deal with the skyrocketing inflation
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Government measures to control prices have cut inflation by over 5 percent, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday. Furthermore, Hungary’s government has decided to raise pensions by a further 3.9 percent from July in light of higher than expected inflation, bringing the overall pension hike to 8.9 percent, he added.
Financial experts agree that without the government-imposed price caps, inflation would be over 13 percent instead of the current 8.5 percent, Gergely Gulyás told a regular government press briefing. He noted that Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán on Wednesday announced that the government was extending the caps on fuel and some staple foods until July 1.
Hungary’s government is under pressure to let prices rise, Gulyás said, adding that the government would continue to review the feasibility of prolonging the price caps as long as it could and as long as the country’s oil and gas supplies were secure. In the current situation, the government has to prioritise the protection of families over market logic, Gulyás said.
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“The Calm Before the Storm”.
Let us HOPE not a re-enactment of the Parting of the Red Sea – or Crossing the Red Sea – that in fact, we witness – the rising of the Danube, that sees us ALL become engulfed – or swallowed up – due the downward trending – in all major componentry categories – of the Hungarian Economy.
I was under the impression that Hungary’s inflation rate (March) was 9.1% “The core inflation rate in Hungary surged close to a 21-year high of 9.1 percent in March of 2022, compared to 8.1 percent in February and surpassing market forecasts of 8.5 percent.” – https://tradingeconomics.com/hungary/core-inflation-rate
Despite the recently introduced price caps, the present pension rate is well short of of the 9.1% inflation in March, and let’s not even think ahead to July when the pensioners get their next raise. Suffer the less-fortunate! 🙁 :((
P.s. Why can’t the pension rates be automatically adjusted to (at least) equal that of the rate of inflation?