2026-04-06
25 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Blau.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
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We examine a promising set of policies
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And more saints have been canonized in the past 40 years than in the previous 400.
Our correspondent explains why the number is climbing towards heaven.
But first.
On a chilly day in late March, I took a train from Budapest
down to a small Hungarian city called Hódmezővásárhely,
which is near the border with Serbia.
Matt Steinglass is our Europe editor.
I was there to watch a very important man make a speech.
There were thousands of residents packed into the city's center,
which is a beautiful sort of quaint Habsburg-era central square.
And they were down there to hear the same man, Peter Magyar.