The act on unfair market behaviour and the ban on competitive restrictions enables the Government to declare certain company mergers to be of national strategic significance out of public interest.

The Cabinet has made twenty-one similar decisions to date. Declaring the fusion involving the Central European Press and Media Foundation to be of national strategic significance is not a unique case, it is the twenty-first decision of this kind. The highlighted justification for the degree issued by the government today is that saving the printed media in Hungary, and particularly in the interests of the long-term survival of county public media forums, is in the public interest. This is the goal set in the statutes of the Foundation, in addition to which the fact that it is not doing this in the interests of realising profits but on a non-profit basis is also deserving of support.

(Government Communication Centre)