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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
State tobacco monopoly only helps black market
Starting this summer, tobacco products will only be sold in state-run stores in Hungary. The journalist Márton Vég writes in the business paper Világgazdaság that rather than discouraging smoking the new law will only boost the illegal tobacco trade: "Sometimes I feel as if we were turning back the wheels of time. And that's the feeling I get when it comes to the national tobacco products stores that will open this summer. ... The new system thought up by the government is totally unrealistic. No one who lives in the countryside is going to drive 30 kilometres to buy a pack of cigarettes. In Zala County [in western Hungary], for example, roughly two-thirds of the towns wouldn't have any tobacco stores at all. So the black market in tobacco products stands to increase dramatically. ... Whereas tobacco products are now sold at roughly 40,000 stores, in future there will only be a couple of thousand selling them."
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Sziget Festival a success despite small budget
The Sziget Festival, one of Europe's largest rock music festivals, kicks off for the 20th time today on Budapest's Shipyard Island. Despite its comparatively small budget, the festival is internationally acclaimed, writes the business paper Világgazdaság: "Although Sziget won the prize for the best major European festival last year, for its 20th anniversary edition it can't boast the biggest names as participants. Unfortunately the festival still doesn't have the prestige - or the budget - to lure the stars who play at other international festivals. More than one hundred major festivals take place in Europe every year. To remain competitive in view of this diversity, a festival has to have something that singles it out. ... Sziget has adopted a very clever strategy, so it's not as if it had problems in this regard. ... This year, too, almost 400,000 people are expected to visit the island. The previous 19 Sziget festivals have attracted over five million visitors, with the number of foreign visitors reaching 85 percent in recent years."
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