![]() ![]() It is hard to fathom how such a strategy will help the situation. If a hospital director doesn’t follow this order he will be fired. The government’s solution is simple: forbid the hospitals from accumulating any new debts. For the time being, the newly appointed undersecretary will remain, but I have feeling that his days are numbered. Their current debt is 70 billion forints, which must be paid out of the central budget. Their suppliers, mostly Hungarian middle-size companies, are also hurting. At the meeting he complained that 500 billion extra forints had been sunk into healthcare and yet the hospitals are still in the red. It seems, however, that Viktor Orbán doesn’t like the idea, so most likely it will be dropped.Īnother concern of Viktor Orbán is the state of Hungarian healthcare, which is rapidly deteriorating instead of improving. Apparently, it was inspired by the “Polish model,” which introduced a ninth year of elementary education–along with an entirely new educational philosophy. It has simply resurrected an old idea of Zoltán Pokorny, former minister of education in the first Orbán government (1998-2002), to extend the eight grades of compulsory education by one year. So far the government hasn’t talked to educational experts or teachers’ unions, and it hasn’t spelled out the details of its plan. Every time I hear of a new school reform I just shudder. We don’t know how the government is planning to undo the chaos created by Rózsa Hoffmann (KDNP), but it looks as if another “reform” is underway. All schools were nationalized except for a few private schools and were put under one huge umbrella organization that turned out to be totally incapable of supervising about 120,000 employees and thousands of schools. The government must have realized that the so-called school reform initiated by the second Orbán government was a failure. An Irish proverb says “Never bolt the door with a boiled carrot.” What will the Hungarians use? I wonder how they will deport all those people who are currently in Hungary and what will they do with those who are on their way. He wants “to bolt the door to Hungary” to all “economic immigrants because we don’t need any of them.” Hungarian economic emigrants leave in droves while Hungary is bolted tight to anyone coming from “another culture.” He will not wait for the European Union, which is far too slow. Orbán’s solution to the problem is draconian. While last year 42,000 requests for immigrant status were received, this year, just in January, 14,000 such requests were filed. His greatest concern seems to be the immigration of “economic refugees.” In the last two years their numbers have grown substantially, and recently they’ve spiked. ![]() So, let’s see what Viktor Orbán actually wanted to talk about. Or, if an encounter, like the one with Merkel, is not exactly a success, he changes the subject. When Viktor Orbán loses a fight, he doesn’t like to talk about it. It also seems they were hoping to hear more about the deal between the government and the RTL Group. This time, for example, apparently the MPs wanted to know more about the visits of Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin, but they heard nothing about either. Or if they want information from the prime minister, they don’t always get it. If they come up with an idea of their own, which doesn’t happen too often, Orbán usually decides against it. Naturally, the situation is the reverse, Viktor Orbán tells Antal Rogán what he expects them to do. I find these gatherings amusing, especially when I hear from Antal Rogán, the whip of the caucus, “we request and authorize the government” to do this or that. ![]()
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