“Hungary has frozen the prices of essential products such as milk, flour and sunflower oil as the cost of living climbs and a finely balanced election looms in two months’ time,” the Times of London reports.
“The prices of seven items, including sugar, chicken breasts and pork legs, are now capped for three months at the level they reached in mid-October.”
“Shops are also obliged to display signs crediting the government with holding down the cost of basic foodstuffs, in what opposition parties have cast as a nakedly political measure and an admission of the ‘total failure of economic policy.'”
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