interview

After some lessons of disrupted flights and thousands of stranded passengers, Wizz Air cancelled every 20th flight from their summer schedule so they can surely operate the rest, says Robert Carey, President of Wizz Air in his interview with 24.hu. Mr. Carey claims they were the most prepared for the massive waves of Europeans wanting to travel again, calls the “extra profit tax” on flights departing from Budapest “disappointing” but is otherwise optimistic. The president argues low-cost carries will come out strengthened from the downturn, because people don’t give up traveling but say they’ll do 5 days instead of a week or try to spend less.

Gender has been the subject of much discussion in Hungary in recent years, and Hungarian citizens were even asked about gender reassignment in the referendum held on 3 April. Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, the new German coalition government came up with a bill that would allow even people under 14 to legally change their sex. How should we approach these issues if we are not satisfied with the simplistic language of domestic government propaganda, and what is gender today? What does the researcher say, who has her criticisms of the trans movement, but also firmly rejects the politics of stigmatisation?

Due to the tight Hungarian labor market, wages are set to increase by 15-20 percent, which will lead to stable inflation of 10-15 percent — a possible dire economic portrait for Hungary, according to Viktor Zsiday in an interview with 24.hu. We also queried him about the government's management of the utility cuts and the economic fallout, inflation, price caps and Hungary's prospects for growth.