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A gas interconnector between Croatia and Hungary was put into operation on 3 August. This is the first completed element of the North-South gas corridor, which envisages connecting the Świnoujście LNG terminal in Poland via the Czech…
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| Tomasz Dąborowski
The takeover of the shares held by the Russian company Surgutneftegas in MOL by the Hungarian government fits in with the vision of increasing the influence of the state on the strategic sectors of the economy but is not likely to…
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On 24 May Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that Hungary reached agreement with the Russian oil company Surgutneftegas over buying 21.2% of shares in MOL. This is the culmination of the centre-right Fidesz government's efforts that…
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At the summit of the European Council held on 24-25 March, Hungary, currently holding presidency of the EU Council, and the Czech Republic announced that they will opt out of the Euro Plus Pact. Thus these two countries figure, along with…
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On March 1st the Hungarian government announced their programme of structural reforms which assumes a significant reduction of the country’s debt (from 80% of GDP in 2010 to 65–70% of GDP in 2014) and substantial limitation of budgetary…
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On 16 February, the European Commission approved the amendments to the media law proposed by the Hungarian government. The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and representatives of Hungary found that the law with the…
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Following the order of the Hungarian General Prosecutor's Office the former manager of the the national asset management company MNV Miklós Tátrai, the state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2005-2009 Márta Horváthné Fekszi…
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The Chinese company Wanhua Industrial Group took over full control of the Hungarian chemical corporation BorsodChem for a price of USD 1.6 billion on 1 February. This way the world’s third largest manufacturer of isocyanates (TDI) has…
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| Lucie Szymanowska
Granting Hungarian citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living abroad is still a matter of dispute between Hungary and Slovakia but is unlikely to affect the development of co-operation in Central Europ.
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The Hungarian government revealed on 1 February that only 3.3% of those authorised submitted a declaration of their will to remain in the ‘second pillar’ of the pension system. This meets the expectations of Viktor Orban’s government,…