Foreword

Abstract

The 2026 parliamentary elections in Hungary may offer a new opportunity to restore the distorted functional structure and disrupted equilibrium of our economy and social trust, to eliminate corruption, and to carry out comprehensive reforms of economic policy and public finances - reforms made inevitable by the record-high public deficit, the significantly increased national debt and interest burden, the low productivity and GDP growth coupled with wage increases that outpace these figures, the lack of EU funding, the unpredictable government interventions that preclude free market competition, the low quality of education, healthcare, and the railway network, and the failure to diversify energy sources.