Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban says his government will be presenting a draft budget for 2015 to parliament today. The country is under pressure to keep its deficit below 3 percent of GDP, something that would enable Orban the embarrassment of having to submit to fiscal monitoring by the European Union. Orban says his goal is to get nearly 180,000 unemployed Hungarians back to work by the end of this election period in 2018. The government will not shy away from using the budget to support job creation. The country’s finances have stabilized since the worst days of the crisis and Orban hinted that he would be pushing for the reform of Hungary’s education system.
