{"id":3364,"date":"2012-01-19T20:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2012-01-19T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:33:49","slug":"hungary%e2%80%99s-monetary-policy-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/hungary%e2%80%99s-monetary-policy-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s Monetary Policy Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most controversial topics in Europe right now is \u2026 Hungary\u2019s national bank? Yes, we live in strange times.<\/p>\n<p>The Magyar Nemzeti Bank has become a focal point in the fight between the center-right government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the European Union, which says the government has been undermining the central bank\u2019s independence, a sacrosanct principle in EU law. Mr. Orban has repeatedly criticized the bank\u2019s president, Andr\u00e1s Simor, slashed his salary by 75% as part of a government-wide program of salary cuts and pushed a law that would dilute Mr. Simor\u2019s influence over monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/brussels\/2012\/01\/18\/hungarys-monetary-policy-mistakes\/?mod=WSJBlog\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most controversial topics in Europe right now is \u2026 Hungary\u2019s national bank? Yes, we live in strange times. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank has become a focal point in the fight between the center-right government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the European Union, which says the government has been undermining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-37","tag-26","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}