By Tamas Csonka in Budapest Hungary was acting as an intermediary for China in providing the new North Macedonia government with a €500mn loan, which comes from the €1bn secured by Budapest from a consortium of Chinese banks earlier this year, investigative news site Vsquare confirmed on September 12. According to press reports, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski had reached an agreement with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the VMRO party returned to power in May. VMRO’s vice president revealed at the time that the loan would not come from Chine but would be extend…