At the same time, the cabinet has requested that the renovation should not take longer than a year and a half to finish, he added.

Gulyás also announced that the electronic road toll would rise by 5.8 percent from January 1 with the extra revenue going towards a “village road fund” that will allow the government to develop the country’s least developed village roads.

The price of 10-day motorway vignettes will rise to 3,500 forints from the current 2,975 forints, he said.