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Hungary's desperate fight against high prices

Wednesday, Jun 3, 2026

Mediapool

Prices for common goods like pasta, chocolate, and beans vary significantly between Budapest, Vienna, and other Hungarian/Austrian cities.

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The text compares prices for various goods across different cities and countries, noting that spaghetti is 20% more expensive in Vienna than in Budapest, a chocolate candy costs significantly more in Graz than in Bekasi (Hungary), and cooked white beans are 27% pricier in Graz than in Budapest. Additionally, the same brand of cognac is cheaper in Vienna than in Győr (Hungary). The text concludes with a request for readers to register or log in to support independent journalism and access an archive.

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PULSE – Europe beyond the beat is an initiative coordinated by OBCT which has been promoting intense journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. The main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

PULSE’s offering also includes the distribution of free content to third-party outlets and the animation of four thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, Europe and other global powers, the green transition, or media and information society.

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved, which produces new journalistic content on European issues in a collaborative way on a daily basis, coming in many languages. A further layer of associated partners and journalists enriches PULSE’s editorial output, which amounts to over a thousand publications per year.