The IMF will rule Hungary

The conservative newspaper Magyar Nemzet fears that the IMF will in future take over the business of government in Hungary. "The fate of the country will from now on be guided by the International Monetary Fund. The government [of Prime Minister Ferenc] Gyurcsány will continue to rule as a puppet government. ... Our real prime minister will be called Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who recently almost lost his job as IMF chief because of a love affair. But the affair might even prove to be advantageous to us, for the IMF president is sure to have found out something about Hungary from his lover, who is of Hungarian extraction. ... [Nevertheless] our worst nightmares are ... now becoming reality. At any rate, we have lost the economic independence of which opposition leader Viktor Orbán recently spoke. And if we are told in future that because of IMF aid we have to keep tightening our belts, let us console ourselves with the curious fact that Hungary is the only colony of the International Monetary Fund within the EU."

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