The announcement of a renewed fiscal squeeze in Hungary should help to ease market fears of a ‘Greek style’ crisis in the country. But the policies unveiled earlier today sidestep the underlying need to tackle the bloated public sector in favour of populist measures, notably a new ‘bank tax’. The economy will do well to stagnate this year and is likely to grow only modestly in 2011.
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