Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, issued a statement on the United States’ intervention in Venezuela. The statement was supported by 26 of the EU’s 27 member states; the only country that did not support it was Hungary.
This is exactly how things end up — just as expected. When the little lapdog Viktor Orbán keeps rubbing up against Vladimir Putin, May my luck with the lottery be exactly as good as this outcome was expected to be.
“And what will happen to the city hospitals—good afternoon! So if you build one so-called super hospital for every three counties, that means a facility with at least 1,500–2,000 active beds, which requires an enormous number of doctors and nurses. Where are they supposed to come from? Will they be taken from elsewhere—perhaps from the city hospitals?
Then what happens to places like Kapuvár, Csorna, Pápa, and others?
A left-leaning healthcare expert even said on ATV that maintaining and developing super hospitals and small city hospitals at the same time simply does not work. This was already stated during the Centrum Hospital program years ago—even under the Gyurcsány government—that these two models cannot coexist. But you can’t win elections by openly saying, ‘I’m closing hospitals.’
So our position is that these city-level hospitals must be preserved within a portfolio that matches the actual local healthcare needs.
You cannot do this to families—you can’t force them to travel 80 kilometers just to visit their grandfather. What kind of inhumane thinking is that?
So I would strongly caution everyone: the idea of a super hospital sounds great, but in reality it means a hospital-closure program.”
And this is where the biggest contradiction appears 👇
In 2018, when the South Buda Central Hospital and the entire central hospital system were being planned at full speed, when:
they were talking about 1,200–2,000-bed mega hospitals,
promising healthcare coverage for 1.2 million people,
rolling out glossy visual plans, project companies, and billions in preparatory spending,
👉 somehow the lack of doctors and nurses never came up.
Even though:
the staffing crisis did not begin in 2024–2025,
healthcare workers did not disappear overnight,
emigration, burnout, and retirement have been ongoing since after 2010.
So the question is legitimate—and unavoidable:
📌 If today the problem is that there aren’t enough staff for a super hospital, then where were the doctors and nurses supposed to come from in 2018?
📌 Where were they supposed to appear from? 📌 Or did it simply not matter back then?
🎭 What are we actually seeing?
What Péter Takács is saying today is:
not a new realization,
but a retrospective justification for why a politically marketed, but professionally flawed project ultimately failed.
In 2018:
they made promises,
they celebrated it,
they campaigned on it.
In 2024–2026:
they point to staff shortages,
as if this had not been foreseeable all along.
👉 This is not a professional mistake. 👉 It is political irresponsibility—now repackaged as “sober criticism.”
📈 Between 2019 and 2025, the local business tax (HIPA) of Budapest’s 2nd district — as I also showed in my previous post — has risen from 7 billion forints to nearly 12.5 billion forints, thanks to the government’s programs and development policies. That is an increase of about 5.5 billion forints.
📣 During this period, not only did HIPA increase significantly, but the state’s operational funding also nearly doubled: from 3.7 billion to 6.4 billion forints.
📊 If we put everything together, the district now has 2.7 billion forints more in its pocket — a 34% increase compared to 2019.
Instead of misleading people, let’s provide clarity — instead of stirring up emotions, let’s share accurate information!
This is not +2.7 billion, this is −2.3 billion HUF in reality.
🎯 In simple, communicable terms
The Minister completely ignores the 63% inflation and hides the massive revenue withdrawals. District II is not richer — it is over 2 billion HUF poorer in real value than in 2019.
If we look at the 2010 level, by 2024 the real value of wages had increased to nearly 80% compared to that baseline. Based on roughly ten months of available data this year, we can already say—albeit as an estimate—that real wage growth is likely to rise to around 85%.
This growth was among the highest in the European Union in 2024: Hungary recorded the third-highest real wage increase in the EU.
If we compare Hungary’s average wage level in 2010 to the EU average, we were at about half of the EU level back then. By 2024, we had already reached two-thirds of the EU average.
In other words, Hungary is steadily converging toward the EU’s average wage level.
Annual net average earnings (PPS) of a full-time, single worker without children (Source: Eurostat, compiled by: Piroska Szalai)
The chart shows Hungary (green bars) and the EU-27 average (blue bars) from 2010 to 2025, along with the ratio of Hungarian wages to the EU average (orange circles, right axis).
‼️💰📈 Hungarian wage growth is among the best in the EU — and even stands out globally. 👏
✅ In 2013, the purchasing power of the Hungarian average net wage (without tax benefits) was only half of the EU average — today it has reached two-thirds.
💰Hungary’s wage growth ranks among the strongest in the European Union. Since 2016, there were only two years when we did not place among the top five performers. In 2024, Hungary recorded the third-largest improvement among the member states. We are continuously closing the gap with the EU average wage: in 2024 the purchasing power of Hungarian wages exceeded that of six EU countries, was nearly identical to the Czech level, and significantly approached Portugal and Slovenia.
💰The real value growth of Hungarian wages is also outstanding on OECD level. According to the OECD Employment Outlook reports, Hungary has been among the top performers for years. The most recent 2025 edition, analyzing developments from 2021 to Q1 2025, ranked Hungary second — just behind Turkey — out of 37 examined countries.
🌏 Hungarian wage growth is also among the world’s top performers. Based on the Employment Conditions Abroad (ECA) 2025–26 salary trends report, Hungary ranks second in Europe in 2025 (after Turkey), and is expected to maintain this position in 2026. Their forecast shows that our real wage growth will place Hungary among the top 10 countries worldwide.
📊 In the past decade, Hungary has experienced an unprecedented wage boom. Since 2010, both gross and net average wages have more than tripled, while their purchasing power has nearly doubled. In the first half of 2025, the gross average wage was 82.7%, and the net average wage 91.5% higher in real terms than in 2010.
👶👧👦 Thanks to the 50% increase of the family tax allowance from July, and the new tax exemption for mothers of three children from October, net wages are expected to grow even faster than gross wages in 2025.
👩💼 As of January this year, the family tax allowance has doubled compared to a year earlier, and mothers under 40 with two children are also eligible for full tax exemption. Therefore, again this year, net wage growth is expected to outpace gross wage growth.
Yes, you’re seeing it right — he’s already drunk, and his speech… well…
It’s already terrible that if someone asks the question “war or peace?”, then of course the answer is peace. I simply don’t understand how there can be people who call themselves Hungarian and still say: “No, no, we must attack the Russians and we must help Ukraine.” What benefit do we get from that? And if we make too much noise, we’ll end up with an atomic bomb dropped on us. Well, no thank you. So I absolutely do not want war. Peace is perfectly fine for me. Okay? That’s all.
War, migration, and energy security. Without claiming to be exhaustive, on these fateful issues Brussels repeatedly gives the wrong answers, thereby hindering the prosperity of European people and essentially putting the future of the entire continent at risk.
The failed record of the Brussels leadership is clear: Europe’s countries are being drawn ever deeper into war day by day, while migrants flood the streets of Western Europe’s major cities and household energy bills skyrocket brutally across the continent.
By contrast, there are us, Hungarians, who were the first to take a stand and make it clear that we will stay out of the war, will not accept a single migrant, and will not give up Russian energy sources—thus preserving Europe’s lowest utility costs.
Here we have a national government, so we stand on the ground of common sense and reality, guided by a single consideration: the interests of the Hungarian people.
Brussels’ failed policies are becoming ever more obvious, and it is clear that the voice of the people cannot be silenced: a patriotic revolution has begun across Europe. Hungarians are no longer alone, and in more and more countries the realization is gaining a majority that only national governments are capable of putting a stop to our continent’s downward spiral.
That is precisely why the Hungarian election is so important to Brussels: they want to remove us from the way, because the Hungarian government is a clear refutation of the policies that plunged Europe into crisis—and they see that more and more countries are following the Hungarian example.
We know the Brussels recipe: they want a puppet government that obeys in everything, where the national interest does not come first, but Brussels’ instructions do. To fall in line with the mainstream, send money, weapons, and soldiers to Ukraine, let in migrants, and sever ties with Russian energy—even if gas or electricity ends up costing three times as much.
This is what is at stake in the 2026 election: Will we stay out of the war, or be dragged into it? Will we keep migrants out, or let them in? Will we protect reduced utility costs, or allow energy prices to soar?
🎯 1️⃣ Central Frame: “Brussels = failure, danger, chaos”
The opening statement is already a judgment, not an assessment:
“Brussels consistently gives wrong answers… endangering the future of the entire continent.”
🔧 Technique:
sweeping generalization (“Brussels” as a single malicious actor)
unproven causal links (→ therefore we have war, migration, expensive energy)
👉 Key point: no data, no comparison, no alternative causal explanation.
⚔️ 2️⃣ Merging three separate fear clusters
The text fuses three unrelated issues into a single “chain of threats”:
war
migration
energy prices
🔧 Technique: issue stacking → accepting one fear automatically validates the other two.
👉 Not analysis — psychological pressure.
🛡️ 3️⃣ “Us vs. Them” — moral division
“In contrast, there is us, the Hungarians…”
🔧 Technique:
monopolizing collective identity
anyone who disagrees is no longer part of “us”
👉 Exclusionary logic, not democratic debate.
🔋 4️⃣ Utility price cuts as unquestionable truth
“We preserve the lowest energy bills in Europe.”
🔧 Trick:
no definition (net? gross? with subsidies?)
no timeframe
no methodology for comparison
👉 “Energy bills” become a symbol, not an economic metric.
What is it that we have achieved in this country by 2025, or over the past 15 years? Dear friends, we, the members of Fidesz, have built a work-based society in Hungary since 2010. We are the ones who created a work-based Hungary instead of a welfare-based Hungary.
This is what the Tisza party wants to undo. Tisza wants a welfare-based society. Tisza members would take money away from those who work and give it to those who do not.
That is the Tisza program. And this is what we must prevent together: that they collect more money from people and give less back to Hungarians.
The flooding of the Tisza is not an opportunity — it is a danger.
1️⃣ False Dichotomy
“Work-based” vs. “Welfare-based” society
👉 As if the following did not exist:
support for workers,
unemployment benefits,
social safety nets as economic stabilizers.
This is not a policy debate — it’s a moral framing.
2️⃣ Moral Stigmatization
“Taking money from those who work and giving it to those who don’t”
👉 Classic stigmatizing frame:
worker = good
supported person = lazy / undeserving
No data. No evidence. No concrete program.
3️⃣ Enemy Construction + Fear-mongering
“Not an opportunity, but a danger”
👉 Not argument, but fear mobilization:
flood metaphor (loss of control)
collective threat
“us vs. them”
4️⃣ Self-justification through Retrospective Myth
“15 years of achievement”
👉 The message:
does not measure,
does not compare,
does not prove —
it simply shuts down debate by asserting “what exists is good.”
