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				Hungary
		Population: 10.0 million (July 1996)			Area: 35,919 sq. miles		Capital: Budapest
		Other cities: Debrecen, Dunaujvaros, Gyor, Miskolc, Pecs, Szeged			Language: Hungarian		Religions: Roman Catholic (67.5%), Calvinist (20%), Lutheran (5%)

	Economy and Economic Data
		GDP per capita: $7,000 (1995) Currency: forint; Ft 194.43 = $1 (October 1997) Average wage: Major industries: mining, metallurgy, construction materials, textiles, chemicals, processed foods, buses and automobiles Agriculture: wheat, corn, sunflowers, potatoes, sugar beets, livestock, poultry Natural resources: bauxite, coal, natural gas Government Head of State: President Arpad Goncz (re-elected 19 June 1995) Prime Minister: Gyula Horn (Hungarian Socialist Party) Parliament: One house parliament (386 seats) is directly elected (half from constituencies and the rest from party lists) and chooses cabinet, premier, and president. Government coalition: The prime minister leads a coalition of the HSP and the Alliance of Free Democrats; took office in July 1994. Elections: Last held May 1994, next elections due May 1998

Treaties and Agreements in Force

European Union: (applicant)

OECD: yes

Central European Free Trade Agreement: yes

World Trade Organization: yes

EFTA:

Most-Favored-Nation status with United States: yes

International environmental agreements: Party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-VOCs, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands. Signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Law of the Sea

Recent Policy Develoments in Hungary

Articles related to Hungary in the East/West Letter

• "Hungarian Energy Price Fight: Western Utility Investors Angered at Broken Promises" by Lynda Maillet, March/April 1997.
• "Hungarians Clean House: Privatization Scandal in Hungary" by Lynda Maillet, September/October 1996.
• "Backtracking in Hungary: Privatization Process Becomes More Political" by Lynda Maillet, January/February 1995.
• "Hungarians Vote for Pragmatism: Socialists pledge to fix economy and ease pain" by Steven Norton, May/June 1994.
• "Privatization, Hungarian Style: Citizen involvement expanded before elections" by Lynda Maillet, March/April 1994.
• "Hungary, Poland Apply to EU" March/April 1994.
• "Reform Speeds Up in East Europe: Privatization update, Part I" by Lynda Maillet, January/February 1994.
• "New Hungarian Prime Minister" [Political Bulletin], January/February 1994.
• "Why Not One Europe?: Central Europe & the European Community" by Phil Barta, July/August 1993.
• "Tax Trends: Taxation in East Europe and the ex-USSR" [Legislation Update], Summer 1992.

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