The most the government can do is create an economic environment that ensures a good career outlook for young people and efforts are needed in employment policy to create competitive careers and attract young people to return home, he said.

Precise figures were not available about the number of Hungarians working abroad but a Central Statistical Office (KSH) labour survey for people aged between 15 and 74 covered people had not given up their Hungarian residency for good.

This showed 10,000 such Hungarians in the year 2000, 51,000 in 2010 and around 100,000 in the third quarter of 2014.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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