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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11189

1 November 2014
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) digital
Kroes very relieved Hungary is withdrawing internet tax plan

Brussels, 31/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - Pressure from Hungarian demonstrators and the European Commission have won out against Hungary's plan to tax downloads. On Friday 31 October, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, announced the withdrawal of his proposal, which some commentators had described as an attack on freedom. Following a week of silence on the subject, he finally asserted that the Internet tax could not be introduced in its current shape and could not be validated in the...

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