Today I want to share with you two post that from a certain point of view will be a treat for you . Why? Because the referenced articles – on which the following blog entries reflect on – are in English! So it’s great for me too as I don’t have to give pages of translation on the background and you might also get a feeling on how these bloggers reflect on some news about Hungary.

First, Hírbehozó is writing about the news articles discussing the possibility of secret CIA terrorist prison and interrogation facility in Eastern Europe. He points to a related Washington Post article, an AP report and a Reuters piece too. Also a speculation of the Brisbane Courier Mail even names Hungary among a few other countries in relation to the fight against terrorism. None of the sources explicitly state where the caps are.
Reuters later issued a new report with the information that both Russia and Bulgaria has denied that there would be such facility in their country.
Meanwhile Hungarian government officials so far has only commented:
“We don’t know about anything like that.”
“There is no such information that would prove the truth of this press information”.
Hírbehozó asks: “So what the hack does this political talk really means?”
[Henrik’s note: as these articles are quite recent I would not be surprised to see some more responses in the coming days.]

The second entry is from Pocakos, who points to Asian news sources for information on a recently finalized appr. $600million investment decision of Hankook Tire in Hungary. The Hungarian Minister of Economy also gave an interview to the Korea Herald, where he claimed the lack of red tape burden in Hungary as one of the success factors.
And although Pocakos seems to be happy for the deal (which I guess is well in place), I think the title of the entry with a question mark is somewhat telling of what he is surprised about in the statement of the Minister: “Bureaucracy-free Hungary (?)”

(The referenced blogs are in Hungarian, but the linked news articles are in English)

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