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Monday, August 02, 2010

Hungary declares "economic freedom fight" with EU and IMF

The new Hungarian government, and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has decided it's had enough of being dictated to by the EU and the IMF, which both recently halted bailout-loan talks, saying Hungary wasn't doing enough to make durable cuts in state spending.

Orbán's government has said it will adhere to the 2010 budget-deficit target - 3.8% of GDP - set under the terms of its current loan agreement with the IMF and EU. But it insists how it goes about it shouldn't be the IMF or the EU's concern.

"It's an economic freedom fight," said a senior official in Mr. Orbán's administration. "We are getting back the financial independence of the country."

This will certainly prove to be an interesting backdrop to the ongoing EU discussions regarding 'economic government'.

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