Hungary Wants Foreign Land Owners to Leave

Politics ♦ Published: October 15, 2012; 21:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants to bring back “stolen land”.

Hungary Wants Foreign Land Owners to Leave / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The Hungarian government plans to abolish property ownership for foreigners. “We will protect our Hungarian land against foreign speculators and bankers.” Prime Minister Orban says. The new property act should prevent the acquisition of Hungarian land by foreigners.

In the last two decades, many foreigners acquired agricultural land via Hungarian “straw men” as official…