Anne Applebaum: “If anybody had been putting bets again in 1989, making an attempt to guess which Warsaw Pact state would emerge most quickly and efficiently from communism, many of the cash would have been on Hungary. Because of a regime that started experimenting with financial liberalism within the Eighties, Hungary was recognized again then as ‘the happiest barrack within the socialist camp.’ Within the Nineties, Hungary’s educated inhabitants, speedy privatization, nice structure and first rate meals meant that Hungary attracted a disproportionate quantity of international funding, given its small measurement.”
“However now it’s the 2020s, and Hungary is bumping alongside on the backside of many indexes as an alternative.”
