Are populist politicians turning on foreign capital? Foreign investment helped catapult central Europe to prosperity over the past 20 years. To escape the current recession it will need more of it. But a populist response to the economic crisis is pulling in the opposite direction, as several recent incidents in Hungary illustrate.rnThe body that administers Hungary's airwaves, ORTT, has taken the two nationwide radio licences away from foreign-owned stations and given them to two local firms, one of which has links to Fidesz, the right-wing opposition party. The body's chairman, Laszlo Majtenyi, has resigned, complaining that the decision-by delegates from Fidesz and the ruling Socialist party-broke the law. A parliamentary investigation has been blocked, prompting speculation about a political stitch-up.
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