Despite price caps on essentials, the central European country faces soaring inflation and a plunging local currency amid talks with Brussels over held-up EU funding.
Hungary, which largely depends on Russian oil and gas, declared a "state of danger" on Wednesday over the energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine.
Among the measures to tackle the problem, people who consume more than the average amount of energy will have to pay for it at the market price rather than the heavily subsidised state rate.
