Earthed grey eminences – 15 years of the Hungarian Energy Office

The Hungarian Energy Office (MEH) used to dream of correcting the disharmonious voices of the Hungarian energy world and of becoming an independent professional citadel; but it has operated rather incompetently ever since its foundation. While its decisions have financial consequences, their ability to assert interests has been on the decline since Péter Medgyessy’s government. Issues of high importance have been shifted under the control of the parliamentary economy committee lead by László Puch, later by György Podolák. The institution that has so far only experienced failure celebrates its fifteenth anniversary.

István M. Szabó