Hungary's Orban pledges to preserve economic stability as crisis looms

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government will preserve economic stability next year and maintain a cap on household energy bills even as the European Union slides into an "economic crisis", nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday. As the country marked the anniversary of a 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, Orban, who was reelected for a fourth consecutive term in April elections, said next year would pose several challenges with the war in neighbouring Ukraine. "A war in the east, and an economic crisis in the West," Orban told supporters in Zalaegerszeg, about 200 km (124 mil...