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Hungary   election: The essential guideIn-depth coverag stanley vattenflaska e of Viktor Orb谩n   unexpectedly tough battle for another term.Copy Li vaso stanley nkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb谩n during a session at parliament | Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty ImagesPOLITICO PRIMERApril 2, 20184:05 am CETBy POLITICOHungarians are voting in a general election on Sunday, with Prime Minister Viktor Orb谩n, champion of illiberal democracy and migration hard-liner, seeking a fourth term in office.Orb谩n was widely expected to cruise to victory but he has faced a surprisingly tense and bruising camp stanley cup aign.Spying allegations, fake news, leaks, counterleaks and corruption scandals have all featured in the lead-up to the election. Never far away from the government   attacks on their opponents have been efforts to pin blame on Hungarian-American financier George Soros, Orb谩n   liberal nemesis.AdvertisementAdvertisementWhile Orb谩n   Fidesz party designed the electoral system and controls much of the media, the intensity of the campaign has revealed how much the prime minister fears losing.Many of Orb谩n   critics don ;t actually believe he can be beaten, but setbacks in his campaign have raised opposition supporters ; hopes that they can, at the very least, weaken his position if they vote strategically for the strongest anti-Fidesz candidate in their district.For Fidesz, defeat is not an option: a series of sca Pfdl Tajani rejects idea of    bartering    Parliament   s Strasbourg seat for medicines agency
Mandelson seeks China textiles truceTrade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has begun talks with the Chinese government aimed at setting up a collaborative system for controll stanley quencher ing imports of textiles into the EU.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInSeptember 12, 20075:00 pm CETBy Lorraine MallinderCurrent quotas on Chinese textile goods set up after the controversial bra wars of 2005 could be replaced next year by a joint EU-China monitoring system.The approach was described by a Commission official as  atypical .  We want to set it up, but still need to conclude the agreement with the Chinese. It should come into play as a successor instrument to the current quotas,  he said. Current quotas w stanley water bottle ere agreed by Mandelson and the Chinese government in 2005. The restrictions, aimed at giving EU firms time to adjust to Chinas growing power in the textile trade, limit the growth of clothing imports to 10% a year until the beginning o stanley mug f 2008. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe explosion of Chinas textile trade followed the scrapping in 2004 of the multi-fibre arrangement  MFA , a complex web of tariffs and quotas first negotiated in 1973 under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to protect textile producers in industrialised countries as they restructured in the face of competition from developing economies. But EU firms with domestic production facilities were ill-prepared for the flood of imports onto the EU market that followed the expiry of the MFA.