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Hungary by Atlatszo – Hungarian government spent €40 million on anti-Soros propaganda
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Hungarian government spent €40 million on anti-Soros propaganda in 2017
The Hungarian government spent more than 40 million euros last year on advertising its two ‘national consultations’ and communicating the ‘results’ of those. Nearly third of that money flowed to Lőrinc Mészáros, a close friend of PM Viktor Orbán.
Indebtedness of national oligarchs risk banking system, experts say
We estimated how much money banks loaned to the economic powerhouses fuelled by taxpayer money and asked experts to help us make sense of the numbers. All but one of the them said that this can lead to serious troubles in the Hungarian economy.
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