The government does not anticipate that Hungary will not receive EU money – news of the day
Pensions will rise to a further 3.9 rises in July, with the benefit going back to those affected in one lump sum. After signing the decree on raising pensions, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Facebook that prices are rising, inflation is rising and the government wants to protect pensioners. Previously, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, described the decision of the Cabinet at the Government Info and said that the 5% increase at the beginning of the year was lower than inflation, so the decision to increase pensions was made taking into account 8.9% inflation.
The government has read the letter from the European Commission about the proceedings against Hungary and is ready to sign the contract for the recovery fund, the minister in charge of the prime minister’s office said. Gergely Gulyás: stated: there are points why Hungary is disputed, but there is still no obstacle to signing. He mentioned, as an example, that the rate of one-off procurement needs to be reduced, with the government committing to a reduction of less than 15 per cent. He added that the government does not expect the country not to receive EU money.
It is not a question for Hungary to pay for Russian gas to arrive, the foreign and foreign minister said in a joint press conference with the Croatian foreign and European minister in Zagreb. Péter Szijjártó added that energy supply is a matter of national security and that the government has a duty to guarantee security. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that if there are no new sources of natural gas and new transport routes, the role of natural gas from Russia in the supply of Central Europe and even the whole of Europe will remain.
The Fidesz faction nominates László Kövér again. At the inaugural session, the faction of the 117-member pro-government faction decided that Csaba Hende, Vice-Speaker of the National Assembly, and István Jakab and Sándor Lezsák could be elected Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly in the next term. The Fidesz faction re-elected Máté Kocsis as faction leader by unanimous vote. The positions of deputy leader of the faction are held by Eszter Vitályos, Gabriella Selmeczi, Gábor Kubatov, party director, György Balla, faction director and Péter Ovádi.
The mandate of Péter Márki-Zay was issued to Noém Végh by the National Election Commission. In the parliamentary elections, Péter Márki-Zay, who won a seat in the first place in the national election of the opposition coalition, is elected. Instead, Noémi Végh, 39th on the joint party list, could sit in parliament. Noémi Végh was on the six-party list with Jobbik’s quota. The decision of the NVB is not final and can be appealed to the Curia within three days.
Two large-scale explosions shook the Ukrainian capital, the center of Kyiv. Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said Russian forces had launched a rocket attack. The attack has wounded, but their exact number is unknown. One missile hit an unnamed object, the other hit a populated area next to it. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and UN Secretary-General António Guterres met in Kiev shortly before the detonations. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian official informed CNN that the biggest airstrike to date had hit the last refuge of Mariupol defenders, the Azov steel plant.
Gazprom says it continues to use Russian gas, only now from Germany. A spokesman for the Russian state gas group said the gas was still coming on the Jamal pipeline, only now from Germany, and the volume was the same as before, at 30 million cubic meters a day. According to a Russian spokesman, all this shows that Poland is still in need of Russian gas. Gazprom on Wednesday cut off gas supplies to the Bulgarian and Polish gas suppliers as neither paid in rubles on time.
In Chernobyl, the level of radioactivity at the former nuclear power plant did not exceed the limit, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said in Vienna. Rafael Grossi said after a visit to a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that the level of radioactivity had already risen as a result of earthworks by the Russians, but had not reached a value dangerous for the environment. The director general said he would meet with representatives of Russia to discuss the case of the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
Finland and Sweden would soon decide to join NATO, the organisation’s secretary general said in Brussels. Speaking at a press conference with Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, Jens Stoltenberg said both countries were the closest partners in the military alliance, and the standards of their armies met NATO expectations. Roberta Metsola talks that the military integration of the two EU member states, Finland and Sweden, will further strengthen the Union’s strategic security.