Government on Budapest protest: ‘A few hundred lamed the normal traffic of hundreds of thousands’ - DailyNewsHungary

Government on Budapest protest: ‘A few hundred lamed the normal traffic of hundreds of thousands’ - DailyNewsHungary

The government may have to raise pensions by around 1.3pc in November to match the rate of inflation, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, said at a weekly press briefing on Thursday. Gulyás said that the government calculated with average annual inflation of 4.5pc in 2025. He said the government had allocated over HUF 90bn for the resulting inflation-linked top-up which is required by law. The 1.3pc pension rise in November …