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The presidential campaign entered its final week with Croatia's economic woes dominating the first televised debate organised by TV station RTL on Sunday evening.

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Officials were divided about whether Varga was justified or not in using state resources for personal purposes after Croatian TV station RTL on Sunday published a photo of the health minister being driven to a skiing holiday in Italy in his official car.

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Lawmakers in Hungary have backed the introduction of taxes on revenues from media advertisement which could jump to 40% for the biggest broadcasters.

A detailed view on the bill however suggests it will probably have a severe impact on just one TV channel, the RTL Klub, which is owned by the Luxembourg-based German media concern RTL, Germany's daily Die Welt reports.