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F1 sponsor faces trouble in Budapest

There could be trouble brewing for F1 sponsor Heineken following a decision by the Hungarian government to ban the Dutch beer's red star logo on the grounds that it is a Communist symbol.

The Hungarian government last month voted to ban all totalitarian symbols from use in the country, which has seen a political shift to the right in recent years. While the focus of the ban was ostensibly on far-right imagery associated with Nazism and fascism, left-wing symbols including the hammer and sickle and the red star of Communism have also been banned in the "interests of domestic public order and public morality".