Hungary is one of the first countries in Europe to support culture
In a video interview published on the day of Hungarian culture, Minister of Human Resources Miklós Kásler said that there was a large-scale institutional development in the culture that had not taken place in the history of Hungary since the compromise, the Ministry of Human Resources said.
“In European comparison, the Hungarian government has spent the most money in Europe in support of culture in the last four years,” Miklós Kásler was quoted as saying.
The actors of the cultural sphere have a key role to play in relation to priority financial support: in the case of performers, it was HUF 1 billion last year during the epidemic and HUF 2 billion this year.
“There is no part of Hungarian culture where the subsidies would not have appeared,” the minister pointed out, adding that the government did not provide aid to the artists, but made pre-financing with them. Miklós Kásler stated in connection with the current epidemic situation: the omicron spreads extremely fast, the duplication period is 2-3 days.
He pointed out: the epidemic has reached 330,000 people a day in France and 110,000 in Germany. In Hungary, too, the number of infected people doubled overnight at the beginning of the week, he added. Vaccination is said to make the course of the infection faster and milder, especially in vaccinated people. The unvaccinated are in the greatest danger.
They wrote that in addition to cultural developments and investments, the Minister of Human Resources assessed the current epidemic situation, but also talked about their school enrollments and the “lies” he understood about the Healthy Budapest Program.
The opposition responded to the statement that the Healthy Budapest Program (EBP) for the development of the central region did not belong to the government but to the capital: the EBP has always been a government program and will not stop, it will continue its mission.
He added that the government handed over HUF 10.4 billion to Budapest 2 years ago and HUF 10.2 billion last year. “What happened in Budapest came from this money, with the support of the government,” he emphasized.