Recent political developments across Central and Eastern Europe are increasingly shaping the future of climate and energy policy, particularly around ETS2, Social Climate Plans (SCPs), and public funding priorities. In Hungary, the opposition TISZA party led by Péter Magyar won the parliamentary elections with a constitutional majority, ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year period in power. The […]
We invite to read two new insightful articles from Clean Air Action Group (Hungary). Katalin Tarr explores Hungary’s energy landscape following the recent elections. She examines how decades of state-backed energy subsidies — particularly Viktor Orbán’s “utility price cuts” policy — have created political and economic dependence on artificially low energy prices. While these measures […]