Boring Country?
Byline: James Morrison, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BORING COUNTRY?
Hungary produced glamorous actresses like Zsa Zsa Gabor, famous composers like Bela Bartok and legendary actors like Bela Lugosi, star of the iconic film Dracula.
Hungarians rose up in an ill-fated popular revolt against communism in 1956 and then embraced a somewhat deranged democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hungary was even declared the sick man of Europe in 2007 with high unemployment, inflation and government debt.
Hungary's new center-right government hopes to calm the hysteria.
We would like to become a very boring country, Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi …
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Article title: Boring Country?.
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Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC).
Publication date: June 29, 2010.
Page number: A09.
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