Yet with the government having only limited scope to cut taxes, Hungary could find itself a low-growth, low-deficit economy for the next few years.Job securityIn recent years, January has been a nervous month for Hungarian finance ministers.
When I first got to know him, in 2010, he was traversing Europe, in possession of what he claimed was a roster of modest international leaks: documents about the BBC, Canadian detainees, Hungarian finance, Romanian police, Israeli diplomacy, and "some Russian and Chinese stuff that I can't read".
The Hungarian emigre and finance genius has given nearly $5bn to oppose dictators in Africa, Asia and the former Soviet bloc, but now he is directing his energies at the elected leader of his adopted country.
The confidence of financial markets in the value of the forint and the Hungarian government's finances has also been hurt by Mr Orban's authoritarian style, as well as his move to weaken the central bank's authority and his unwillingness to help the banks out.
Four-fifths of Hungarian NGOs are financed in whole or in part by George Soros.
During World War I he served as joint Austro-Hungarian minister of finance and, from October to December 1916, again as Austrian prime minister.
The archive, which contains mostly documents from 1878 to 1918, when the Austro-Hungarian ministry of finance was in charge of Bosnia, but also older material from the Ottoman period and documents from the war crimes commission after the second world war, was targeted by protesters on Friday.
The local production company gets the rebate from teaming up with a registered Hungarian company that provides the financing and can deduct the contribution from its income taxes.
During the first half of the past decade, many Hungarian households borrowed abroad to finance their mortgages, with the result that they were highly exposed during the 2008-9 financrisisrisis.
Under the Soviet-style, single-tier banking system, the National Bank both issued money and monopolized the financing of the entire Hungarian economy.
