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Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog ordered TV presenter Ferenc Szaniszló hand back a journalism prize the politician had awarded the reporter only a week earlier.
Szaniszló returned the Táncsics journalism prize on March 20.
The decision to grant the prize to Szaniszló, whose antisemitic and anti-Roma remarks have been the subject of several complaints, had prompted an outcry in the European press and an official protest from the Israeli ambassador to Hungary. Several previous recipients of the award also chose to demonstrate their disapproval by returning their medals.
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