by Bianca Guruita BUCHAREST-An old diplomatic joke says that if someone in Budapest coughs, someone in Bucharest will certainly get a cold. With that in mind, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s election victory in Hungary was the equivalent of a coughing fit. Immediately after his success at the polls in May, Orban surprised Romanian politicians and journalists by saying that he […]

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