Orban: Budget geared towards handling war inflation, economic crisis

The government has drawn up the 2023 budget with a view to handling both war inflation and the economic crisis, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio in an interview on Friday. The war is likely to be protracted, Orban said, adding that 2023 would be full of "uncertainty and anxiety", and the world would be "tormented by the war and its economic fallout". He said that whereas Hungarians would not be dragged into the war, it would be impossible not to feel its consequences in the form of inflation and an economic crisis.