The Hungarian parliament is about to adopt a new law that will transfer the ownership of three central public squares in Budapest from the municipality — to the state.
In return, the state is handing over asset-management rights to the respective city district — which happens to be run by the governing Fidesz party.
(In Budapest's two-tier muni...
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Tamas Ibolya is a former diplomat and Hungarian public policy expert, formerly employed at Budapest City Hall, and now head of public policy for the parliamentary group of the Dialogue (Párbeszéd) party.