Economy in focus: Hungary

With his country’s economy in such a precarious state, Viktor Orbán’s political grandstanding increasingly looks like a vanity project Hungary can ill afford. 

Standing on Budapest’s Fisherman’s Bastion looking towards Hungary’s magnificent parliament building, there are no signs at all that the country’s economy is currently on a rollercoaster ride and that ordinary Hungarians are feeling the pinch. 

Restaurants, bars and sörözőéi do good business, well-heeled tourists come and go through the revolving doors of the nearby Hilton hotel. The August sun…