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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Orbán's economic policy damaging for Hungary
Hungary's right-wing conservative government under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a flat tax on January 1 and has repeatedly announced new economic policies since coming to power last May. Writing in the leftist opinion portal Galamus, economist Péter Bauer takes the view that Orbán's economic policy is detrimental to the country: "The Orbán government could have continued the austerity policy of the previous government, combining it with minor structural reforms. Then the country would have overcome its problems within a few years. True: if the government had chosen this path Orbán's populist panic-mongering of the past eight years would have become blatantly obvious. And it would also have become apparent that the [ruling] Fidesz party never had and still has no economic programme. It has used patch-work policies to try and conceal this flaw. ... The Orbán government's 'wonder weapon', the introduction of a 'simplified' flat tax, is also nothing but a sham. It brutally serves the interests of the rich alone."
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Péter Bauer on Hungarian populism
In Hungary, a referendum held last Sunday in which government reforms of the health and education systems were rejected is being described as a step backwards. Economist Peter Bauer is even more pessimistic. He sees the referendum as a consequence of the populism of the last decade: "Until now we thought we were living in a parliamentary democracy, but we must have been mistaken. The voters can reverse decisions made by the parliament they themselves elected whenever they come at a price. ... The referendum is not only a step backwards: we've lost an entire decade and also the hope of creating a more pragmatic and just country in the near future. The opposition has managed to generate such intense feelings of anti-capitalism and anti-competition and revive the idea of the strong state that takes care of anything, that now Hungary cannot fail to lag behind other countries in the region."
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