After the riots, the outgoing US president announced that he would hand over power; work is under way throughout Europe, including Hungary, to ensure that as many people as possible can be vaccinated quickly; It was calculated that the government could have saved all the jobs at risk during the crisis if it had spent more money. This is hvg.hu’s weekly economic summary.

The coronavirus has more than ten thousand deaths in Hungary, the daily number of victims is more than 100, which means that as many people die in a week as a traffic accident in a week. EU authorities have approved the use of Moderna vaccine, the first shipment may arrive in Europe next week, and the EU has ordered even more of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine. Cecília Müller promised that the vaccine developed and manufactured in Hungary could arrive within a year. The vice president of the Hungarian Doctors’ Union, for his part, suggested that those who do not get vaccinated and are admitted to the intensive care unit should receive payment for the treatment.

Referring to the crisis caused by the epidemic, the government is rewriting the budget with decrees. Details of decisions issued in the final days of 2020 are still being decoded in many places, lost between paragraphs, so it could now be revealed that money had been taken for health improvements from various opposition-led districts in Budapest. . But at least the National Defense Service received 2 billion guilders to fight corruption.

Viktor Orbán sketched a utopian picture for state radio of what the country could look like by 2030. In addition to the promise of development that surrounds the western half of the EU, it also emerged again: by 2030, Hungarian multis must bring home as many benefits as the foreigners who get from here. It has been doing this for two years and it sounds good, but it means that Hungarian multis should increase their external economic weight at least ten times. Also, in recent years, this process has not seemed to go really well.

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At home, there is the will and the strength for great transformations: HVG has calculated that in ten years the Orbán government has taken over 14 sectors to enrich its followers, thus concretizing the reign of Fidesz. Without violating the Basic Law, this could hardly have happened.

The government could have saved all the jobs lost due to the crisis for a fifth of public spending on economic protection, the GKI reported. If the budget had accounted for 80 percent of the salary costs of all affected employees over 3 months, the total net budget expenditure would have been HUF 360 billion, more than one billion less than the budget of the Fund for Economic Protection.

More and more data are being obtained on the performance of the Hungarian economy at the end of 2020. One of the most pleasant surprises is that the number of employees has increased dramatically: 63,000 lost their jobs in September and October and 45,000 started working in November. The industry weakened from October to November, but remained 0.8 percent above pre-crisis levels. Retail sales increased in November compared to October, not much less than a year earlier. And those who kept their jobs had an average gross salary of HUF 397,400; of course, part-time shipments are not included. It was also announced that the general government sector had a deficit of HUF 1,629 million at the end of September, when the second wave broke.

Donald Trump says goodbye to power with alarming scenes: the president huddled his followers until they attacked the Capitol, where a meeting was taking place to authenticate the electoral votes. For the first time since 1814, the attackers entered the Capitol. Stock exchanges were not disturbed by all this, but the attack claimed five lives. Trump also raised with him that Mike Pence, who chaired the meeting, did not have to accept the result, but the vice president now confronted him for the first time and said it was not a question of choosing which states to accept voters for.

So the last hurdle is over, Joe Biden will be the president of the USA.Trump finally had a hard time admitting his defeat in a video, but already required that he threaten to ban his favorite media interface, Twitter. For Biden, the week brought another big victory: In Georgia, where senators are elected in two rounds, there was a runoff and the two Democratic candidates won, so after the lower house of Congress, they also have a majority in the Senate.

As a farewell, Trump said one more thing to China: Americans cannot invest in a few Chinese companies, so the New York Stock Exchange announced first that they would delist three companies, then not, and then that they would. But the outgoing president also had trouble opening part of Alaska’s Arctic National Park to oil producers.

“Now, in the first days of January, we have no idea how to actually get into England in practice,” Zoltán Fehér, director of the airline’s Global Sped Project, told hvg.hu. As of January 1, the new rules will be in effect, but companies have only been informed before the first working days of the year that traffic between the UK and the EU will be duty free. However, this increases administration.

“The time spent on additional administration and the lack of detailed rules that result from a late agreement will result in additional costs, and we must pass that additional cost onto our prices as well,” a Waberer spokesperson has already said. And the Association of Road Carriers considers that it is worth transporting to the UK from January, but if the entry and exit of the country becomes more complicated, more difficult, slower than it is now, “it will have an effect of toll increase “.

Meanwhile, British citizens living there also returned from Spanish, Dutch and German airports, returned to the UK for the holidays and did not allow others to get on the plane. The reason was that even the pre-Brexit newspapers would have shown that they live in the EU. Authorities say the airlines made a mistake.

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Days after the previous owner, Tamás Leisztinger’s Arago Investment Holding, transferred another HUF 1.25 billion to Diósgyőr VTK (more precisely to Borsodsport Invest, which owned it), the club changed ownership.

DVTK thus became the property of Borsodi Sport Holding, a company founded in Budapest just two weeks earlier. One of its owners is Mátyás Magyar, who was mentioned on the DVTK website as the chief specialist of the Private Ambulance Pain Medical Center; in fact, it also owns 16 percent, half the size of Lőrinc Mészáros. On the website of the Puskás Academy in Felcsút, he is mentioned as a member of the medical staff that operates the academy. The other owner is Hódút, Károly Varga’s company, whom we present as “the third largest NER builder in addition to the shadow billionaire of Tiszakécske, Lőrinc Mészáros and László Kérjj”.

We fired into a salt well: the people there would even go to a referendum so that South Korea’s Dongwha electrolyte factory could not be built on the outskirts of the village. The company would build an electrolyte plant and a plant to recycle solvents and chemicals generated during battery production. However, the recycling plant would process hazardous waste that would change the safety rating of 3,000 enthusiastic settlements.

At our request, Dongwha Electrolyte Kft. Said that special attention is paid to ensuring that the production of battery materials does not put a strain on the environment. Also, the public apologized for the lack of communication.



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