Hungary

Fascism in Hungary

17 March 2016 - by Matyas Benyik

The fascist movement is usually on the rise in situation of political and economic crises with a specific mandate to train the dissatisfied, rebellious masses docile or even enthusiastic servers of capital. At the same time the dispossessed (...)
Influence of IMF and other IFIs in Central and Eastern Europe

17 November 2015 - by Eurodad

The role of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) – particularly the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has not been the central focus of many analyses in the past. To address this gap, four case studies (...)
Hungary. On the holiday of love

31 December 2011 - by Ferge Zsuzsa

Christmas being the holiday of love and goodwill, and of compassion towards the needy, a summary of what has happened to them over the past year seems to be timely. The overall picture – in Hungary and in the world at large – is pretty (...)
Hungary’s contribution to the debt and austerity conference on 31^st May 2011 in Brussels

6 June 2011 - by Matyas Benyik

Gross and net external debt Hungary’s financial system is market-based and about 80% is owned by foreign banks (mainly from Austria and other EU countries). During the last decade, this ownership structure was wrongly considered to be a factor (...)
Hungary defies the IMF

16 August 2010 - by Jérôme Duval

Hungary, which will assume the EU presidency for 6 months beginning 1 January 2011, has suffered heavily from the financial crisis which is not yet over. Although only marginally off the Maastricht rule regarding annual budget deficits (3.8% in (...)
Press release

Hungary: CADTM denounces government’s outrageous schemes to enforce a neoliberal economic policy

24 September 2006 - by CADTM

Hungary has faced its third week of demonstrations against Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, member of the Socialist Party, a recording of whom revealed last Sunday the lies and the basically anti-democratic behaviour. In order to win (...)