Government allocation for the salaries of general practitioners and dentists who are community practice members will increase by over 40% as of January next year compared with 2020, the human resources ministry said on Thursday.
Hungary submitted a Partnership Agreement (PA) to the European Commission on Thursday, a pre-requisite of drawing on European Union funding in the 2021-2027 financial cycle, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Employees in the cultural sector will get a 20% wage hike from Jan. 1, Miklós Kásler, the minister of human resources, said on Wednesday.
The finance ministry says it expects the economy will grow by 5.9% next year.
Representatives of the united opposition, should they win the general election next spring, have pledged to make the personal income tax system fairer and to combat corruption. They also vowed to introduce a European minimum wage as well as measures promoting a level playing field for entrepreneurs.
The number of registered jobseekers in Hungary fell to 238,700 in December, Tamás Schanda, state secretary at the innovation and technology ministry, said, adding that the number is the lowest in the past 30 years except for December 2019.
A government decision to freeze retail mortgage rates until the end of next June could save Hungarian households 30 billion forints (EUR 81.3m), Csaba Dömötör, a Prime Minister’s Office parliamentary state secretary, said on Thursday.
The Hungarian Banking Association on Thursday said it does not support a temporary government freeze of mortgage loan interest rates.
The government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) on acquiring stakes in insurers Aegon Biztosító and Union Biztosító, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said on Thursday.
Opposition Socialist lawmaker Ildikó Borbély Bangó called for an increase in family support on Thursday, saying that some of the benefits had not changed for 13 years.
