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23 June 2010
HUNGARY: Hungry For Cash, New PM Orban Taxes Banks.
BLOOMBRG/ Two months after newly elected PM Viktor Orban promised “a new system” bankers are finding out what he means--TAXES. Hungary wants to raise 200 billion forint ($880 million) and may end up being the most punitive country of its size for the region's bankers.