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Hungarian prime minister uses Facebook page to ‘unfriend’ IMF, rejects alleged loan conditions
Hungary’s prime minister has long had a testy relationship with the International Monetary Fund — and on Thursday he used Facebook to unfriend the agency and reject its allegedly tough loan conditions.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a video message on his official Facebook page that Hungary could not accept pension cuts, the elimination of a bank tax, fewer public employees and other conditions in exchange for an IMF loan that other officials have said could be about €15 billion ($18.9 billion).
The IMF’s list of conditions, Orban said, “contains everything that is not in Hungary’s interests.”
Source and full story: Washington Post, 6 September 2011
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