De Hongaarse regering van Viktor Orbán zet het IMF aan de deur, althans ze sluiten het kantoor in Boedapest. Orbán wil de macht van instanties als het IMF in de Hongaarse politiek terugdringen. De leningen aan het IMF zullen vervroegd worden terugbetaald. Hongarije gaat ondertussen met succes op zoek naar private geldschieters.
De laatste tijd slaagt Hongarije er ook goed in het begrotingstekort te doen teruglopen.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96E07U20130715
De laatste tijd slaagt Hongarije er ook goed in het begrotingstekort te doen teruglopen.
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(Reuters) - Hungary plans to pay back its IMF loan early and called on the fund to shut its Budapest office in what could be a symbolic move by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government to display its economic sovereignty. Hungary's ability to avoid the austerity programs faced by many of its European neighbors will be the government's main selling point when it bids for re-election next year. In a letter to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Monday, central bank chief Gyorgy Matolcsy said Hungary was considering an early repayment of outstanding sums owed on the 2008 loan. Central Europe's most indebted nation was pulled back from the brink of bankruptcy with a 20 billion euro rescue package from the IMF and the European Union amid the global crisis. Shortly after taking office in 2010, Prime Minister Orban abruptly ended that program as the government sought to control the country's financial affairs on its own. It initiated an unorthodox campaign that included Europe's highest bank tax and special levies on business. |
