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  How is GVH responding to the pandemic, and what areas is it focusing on?

  

  The Budapest Business Journal talks with Csaba Balázs Rigó, President of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) about GVHʼs response to the coronavirus pandemic and the areas it is currently focusing on.

   

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  • competition
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