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John Woods
Waiting lists still very long in Hungarian hospitals
Waiting lists are still unbearably long in Hungary, for example, patients have to wait 470 days for a spine surgery. Many choose private healthcare.
Hungary almost the poorest country in the EU
According to a new Eurostat survey, Hungary is among the poorest EU-countries taking into consideration GDP per capita and actual individual consumption.
Hungarians do not care about corruption
Hungarians consider corruption a problem, but they got used to it. Biggest opposition party Jobbik would stand against it.
Lack of medicines to become chronic in Hungary
The list of medicines in short supply is becoming longer every day in Hungary; however, ordering them online might be dangerous.
PM Orbán’s favourite entrepreneur is richer than Habsburgs were
Interesting calculations show that former gas fitter and PM Viktor Orbán’s friend Lőrinc Mészáros has bigger wealth than Habsburgs had 90 years ago.
Labour shortage: state-owned companies in crisis
Though salaries are increasing state-owned companies still lack capable workforce. Wage union might provide complex solution on labour shortage.
Emigration: much less people work in Hungary than thought?
Mass emigration causes more and more problems, but nobody knows exactly how many Hungarians work abroad, since most of them are omitted from statistics.
Residency bonds: 20,000 immigrants came
Though Government fights against mass immigration in words they let approximately 20.000 immigrants in for money in a highly doubtful program.
Holocaust-survivor professor: “Jobbik was never a neo-Nazi party”
Professor Ágnes Heller stated that Jobbik is no longer a racist or far-right party, and it struggles to re-establish constitution state in Hungary.
Letting out to become more profitable in Hungary
Letting out is to become even more profitable, since, while the demand is high for flats and rooms in big cities, the Parliament even reduced relevant taxes.