Almost 100,000 Hungarians live in the UK, and an estimated 400,000 have left the country since it joined the EU in 2004.
According to the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, people leaving are mostly young, highly educated and single, and usually between 20 and 39.
And this “brain drain” and shortage of workers has become so bad some politicians fear an economic collapse in the next 10 years.
Despite relatively low youth unemployment – 19.3 per cent, below the average rate in Europe of 20.9 per cent – the minimum wage in Hungary is £360 per month, but in the UK or Germany the same jobs can fetch up to £1,256 per month.
Speaking to the Telegraph, 33-year-old Hungarian office manager Gabrielle said: “I want to stay in Hungary, it is my country. But it is tempting to leave when you could earn and achieve so much more elsewhere.”
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EU Wage Union claims free movement has created a “common tragedy” of mass immigration and a “social drama” where families are torn apart.
It says what is “cheap imported labour” for Western member states is a “national tragedy” for Eastern European countries causing a loss of young people, labour shortage, loss of income and less taxpayers’ money being invested into the country.
The group wants the EU to eliminate wage inequality and stop putting the eastern nations in “a unmanageable situation”.
In 2015, in a bid to lure young expats home, the Hungarian government launched a scheme offering them £226 every month for a year if they returned. It also offered free flights back to Hungary for young people living abroad.
However, the scheme was scrapped after a year later after only 105 people were given work upon their return.
This problem is being felt across eastern Europe.
Last year Lithuania elected anti-emigration party, the Farmers and Greens union. The country has lost 10 per cent of its population since it join the UE in 2004.
And late last year the Visegrad group of central European nations—Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—held a summit to call for more action to prevent the emigration of younger citizens.
Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland have all refused to accept refugees from Greece and Italy, and they face heavy fines form the EU if they don’t chance their stance.
Hungary accused euro judges of “raping European values” if they forced them to take in refugees, and many in the nations fear they simply could not afford to welcome hundreds of thousands of migrants.
An Oxford academic from Hungary set up his own cheesery in the country’s “backwaters” in a bid to turn the tide on the exodus.
After he lost his finest cheese maker to a Swiss rival, he lent his voice to the EU Wage Union.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, he issued a stark warning: ”The wage disparity is the single most import threat to EU unity.”