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Watch: Hungary's Booming Wedding Market Doused by Inflation

• 29 Mar 2023 6:02 AM

Soaring inflation is taking the steam out of Hungary's wedding market, supercharged in recent years by PM Orban's lavish family support measures, reports Reuters.

The number of weddings plunging to a nine-year-low at the start of 2023 -as the video below shows.

Between January 2022 and February 2023 63,104 couples got married, 12%, 8,369 fewer than in the previous 12 months. More info on KSH's website (in Hungarian)
 

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