Fürjes: Government Proposes to Budapest EUR 8 BN Extra Funding

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The government is proposing handing Budapest extra development funding worth 3,000 billion forints (EUR 8.1bn) from the central budget, Balázs Fürjes, state secretary for developments in the capital and its agglomeration, told public media ahead of a session of the Municipal Development Council.

 

The extra funds would go towards health projects, universities, and road and park development, Fürjes said. “Hungary cannot succeed without a successful Budapest,” Furjes said, adding he hoped that the city would lend its support to the government’s programmes.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said in reaction to the government’s proposal that the grand total should be “spent on developments Budapest voters authorised [city leaders] to make”. Karácsony insisted that the city had been appealing to the government to negotiate on how EU funds were used “for months”. “Let’s see the list of projects, then we’ll be ready to sit down for talks — every day if necessary,” the mayor said. “I take the future of Budapest, as well as government, seriously. Seriousness requires talks first and briefing the press later. The government has just done it the other way round.”

 

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