May 17, 2012, 2:00 pmThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ready to start talks with Hungary on a financial assistance programme as soon as outstanding issues over the central bank (NHB) are resolved, the Fund’s resident...
May 16, 2012, 3:38 pmThe biggest problem of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with regard to Hungary’s Central Bank Act is not among the well-known concerns, local business daily Napi Gazdaság reported on Wednesday....
April 27, 2012, 8:59 amEarly this week it seemed likely that Hungary will at last be able to sit to the negotiating table with the IMF and the European Commission on a financial assistance programme soon. Some of the most sensitive...
April 27, 2012, 8:15 amThe International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Resident Representative in Budapest reportedly addressed Hungary’s pending aid talks with the Fund at a conference on Wednesday. Portfolio.hu has contacted...
March 28, 2012, 2:05 pmEuropean Union concerns about the independence of the Hungarian central bank (NBH), which blocked talks on an International Monetary Fund (IMF) credit facility, can be “considered solved," Péter...
March 28, 2012, 12:38 pmThe Hungarian cabinet “knows very well" what conditions it should need to meet to start formal credit negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “The ball is in the government’s...
March 9, 2012, 1:16 pmThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) holds on to its previously expressed view that no formal talks can start on a credit facility for Hungary until the cabinet takes tangible action on certain issues...
February 20, 2012, 8:47 amHungary’s government has lowered its growth forecast for 2012, but it continues to believe that the economy will likely avoid recession, said Mihály Varga, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff....
February 10, 2012, 8:59 amThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants to see “tangible steps" and a “strong commitment" by Hungarian authorities to ensure microeconomic stability before it can say when and whether to...
February 9, 2012, 3:05 pmThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) needs to see tangible steps by the Hungarian government on critical economic issues to resume talks on a credit line sought by the country, the Fund's Resident Representative...
February 1, 2012, 2:06 pmThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not urging Hungarian authorities to eliminate subsidies to transport companies, Iryna Ivaschenko, the Fund’s Resident Representative in Budapest, told the...
December 9, 2011, 8:49 amThe IMF mission chief for Hungary will come to Budapest for an informal visit, along with European Commission representatives, but the official discussions on possible precautionary financial assistance...
November 18, 2011, 8:01 amAlthough Hungary has announced that it will commence talks with the International Monetary Fund on a “new type of co-operation", the IMF said it has not received a request from local authorities...
October 18, 2011, 4:45 pmThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides technical assistance to all its members at the request of the countries, the international lender’s resident representative told Portfolio.hu on Tuesday...
October 18, 2011, 10:31 amA delegation of International Monetary Fund experts is currently assisting Hungarian authorities not because they were invited, but because they wanted to come, said Lajos Kósa, Vice President of the ruling...
