Lazar said he made this decision after the railway line that Siemens had completely renovated just ten years ago failed again on Saturday.

"This cannot go on this way, gentlemen", he said in German and noted that on Saturday, about 10,000 people were affected by the fact that the Germans did not build the track to the quality they had promised in exchange for their 15 billion forints payment.

"Instead of them, we are now paying the passengers, but we will collect every last euro cent from them", Lazar said referring to Siemens and added that they would rather pay billions to Hungarian passengers as compensation before the German conglomerate receives even a single penny for another order.

This will continue "until the shortcomings and errors of their previous work are corrected", the minister said.

Siemens to inspect all level crossing barriers

Siemens will undertake an inspection of all of the level crossing barriers it has delivered to Hungary, the CEO of state-owned passenger transport company MAV Group said in a post on social media.

Zsolt Hegyi said Siemens' local management had pledged at a meeting on Thursday to inspect all of the barriers by the middle of the coming week.

The meeting followed the failure of two barriers along the Budapest-Szekesfehervar line on Saturday that delayed almost 10,000 holiday-goers headed to Lake Balaton.


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