Macro-financial risk
2026-04-26
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Hungary 2026: EU funds, the Orban arithmetic, and the Tisza pivot
Conditionality has reshaped the Hungarian fiscal envelope, the forint is the pressure valve, and the 2026 election has compressed the policy reaction function into a tax and spend year that the EU is no longer financing.
Hungary enters the 2026 election cycle with a structural budget that no longer balances on autopilot. The Conditionality Mechanism under Regulation 2020/2092 froze roughly EUR 22 billion of EUR 30 billion in cohesion entitlements over 2022 to 2024, the Recovery and Resilience Facility plan has been suspended on rule of law grounds since 2...