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Hungarian PM attacks EU ‘blackmail’ over IMF loan

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attacked the European Union for imposing political conditions on an EU-IMF loan desperately needed by Budapest, in an interview on Friday.

“Creating political conditions — for example over the justice system — would amount to blackmail, which is unacceptable within the European Union,” Orban told national radio MR1 in his weekly interview.

“The International Monetary Fund (IMF) does not set financial conditions, but the EU is flirting [...]