Hungary's second-quarter GDP rose by 4.6 percent year-on-year, picking up from 4.4 percent in the previous quarter, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a first reading of data released on Tuesday, according to the Hungarian news agency MTI.
"Most branches of the national economy contributed to the growth, market-based services to the greatest degree," KSH said, according to MTI. "Finance ministry state secretary Laszlo Balogh told public news channel M1 that the figures demonstrate the Hungarian economy's robust, vigorous and outstanding growth, with the impetus of the past period continuing. Market-based services played a primary role in growth and tan upswing in industrial production also contributed to it, he added," the news agency wrote.
