Parties of the parliamentary opposition have appealed to the Constitutional Court to scrap a recent law changing regulations concerning the small business tax (kata), the head of Momentum told a press conference broadcast online in front of the top court building in Budapest.
The government is starting to make energy savings at state institutions, while ensuring the regulated price regime for household utilities remains in force, the government’s information centre KTK said in a statement late on Monday.
The opposition Jobbik party has demanded that the government should introduce quotas on the labour market and take measures against companies employing guest workers.
Hungary’s government has approved a support scheme for energy-intensive small and medium-sized businesses, Márton Nagy, the minister for economic development, said over the weekend.
The government has decided to extend the gasoline and food price freeze for another three months, the minister in charge of the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Saturday in Budapest, in the Government Info Event.
Output of Hungary’s construction sector rose by an annual 3.0% in July, after shrinking by 8.1% in the previous month, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) said on Thursday in a first reading of data.
Taking measures against droughts is a strategic task for the national economy, the minister of agriculture told a local conference, calling for irrigation canals to be renewed nationwide and new large reservoirs to be built.
Hungarian industrial output grew by an unadjusted annual 4% in July, quickening from growth of 1.5% in the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a detailed release of data on Friday.
The European Parliament has approved European regulations on the minimum wage, opposition Democratic Coalition MEP Klára Dobrev said on Wednesday.
A quarter of Hungarian businesses plan lay-offs by the end of the year, according to a survey by ManpowerGroup.
