Pensions were hiked by 15% from January 1, raising average pensions by 27,120 forints (EUR 67) per month, government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi said in a video on Facebook on Tuesday.
If we do not count Turkey, which only minimally overhangs into Europe, we are the only one from our continent to make it into the top 10.
Despite the economic crisis, the government will fund wage hikes for doctors, nurses and other health-care workers next year, a state secretary of the interior ministry told MTI on Wednesday evening.
The leaders of employer and employee interest groups signed the agreement on next year’s minimum wage and guaranteed minimum wage at Wednesday’s Budapest meeting of the permanent consultation forum of the private sector and the government.
After examining the annual average wage levels, Eurostat concluded that Hungary is almost the leader in terms of annual incomes in the field of EU member states – reported 444.hu.
A forum of representatives from unions, employers and the government reached an agreement on Thursday on next year’s minimum wage rise, state secretary for employment policy Sándor Czomba announced at a press conference.
The government will raise pensions by 15% as of Jan. 1, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday. In a video published on Facebook, Orbán said he had signed a government decree on the pension hike.
Due to the “sanctioned inflation” caused by “the protracted war and the failed measures in Brussels”, the government has extended the food price freeze until the end of next April, Minister of Agriculture István Nagy announced late on Tuesday.
OTP Bank is buying the Uzbek Ipoteka Bank, the contract was signed on Monday by President and CEO Sándor Csányi and Deputy CEO László Wolf. Ipoteka Bank is the 5th largest bank in Uzbekistan, with a market share of nearly 8.5 percent and a customer base of more than 1.6 million.
Gas consumption in Hungary fell by an annual 41% to 5.8 TWh in October, a monthly report by the Hungarian Energy and Public Utilities Regulatory Office (HEA) shows.
