Minister of Finance Mihály Varga. Photo by Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.com

Not for the first time, National Bank of Hungary Governor György Matolcsy  was more optimistic about the country’s future in his own interview on Friday, saying that the economy would move onto a “V”-shaped recovery path once the pandemic is over.

“We will do our best to get Hungary back on the effective catching-up path that characterized the country before the virus,” he said.

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