Orban understands that a lot of his problems are caused by Biden.
I was in Center City Budapest Sunday when thousands of teachers and government workers marched across the bridge into Center City. News said 80,000.
They were protesting the 20% inflation with no raises.
Orban does his best to appear neutral, but the Hungarians have open arms welcomes for people entering from neighboring Ukraine.
I met escaping Ukrainian women and children everywhere, train stations, airport ....
Do you speak Hungarian?
Zakarpattia Oblast and Transcarpathia.
Interesting articles on Hungary’s energy usage and domestic gas supply:
https://hungarytoday.hu/hungary-to-significantly-increase-domestic-gas-production/
Apparently Hungary has lots of gas, but it’s deep. As in ~2-3 miles deep. Anyone have guesses as to where prices have to be for extraction technology in 2022 to make production from such sources practical / economical? I hunted around online, but all the info. I could find was 10 or more years old.
It looks like Hungary made pretty much the same deal with the devil for gas as did Germany, however, they are even more stuck with it. For all their “independence” (in general), Hungary maybe should have bitten the bullet and built more nuclear plants or started developing their deep gas reserves. Given the policies of other EU countries, opportunities to export at a nice profit would have turned up soon enough...