The Budapest city administration plans to use 2-2.5 billion forints-worth of European Union funds to revamp a landmark square at the Buda bridgehead of Chain Bridge, the capital’s mayor said on Thursday.
The reconstruction plans for Clark Ádám Square in the 1st district are ready, Gergely Karácsony told a press conference.
While preserving the “iconic flower bed” on the roundabout, the plan is create far more extensive pedestrian and green areas, he said.
Asked about the case of a children’s home in Bicske which has been embroiled in a child-abuse scandal, Karácsony said he had ordered an internal investigation regarding the role of the previous Fidesz city administration in connection with the home which operated in the capital until 2013. He said the Budapest municipality had received “a very serious” report in 2011 about events which were “covered up” by the city’s administration at the time.
Karácsony accused the metropolitan leadership of having failed to investigate reports concerning child-abuse allegations at the time, adding that this had been a “serious omission”. He also accused the administration of having “misled” the city’s assembly representatives, insisting that its leaders had known about “very serious doubts” regarding the head of the orphanage.
In THIS article, you may find some visuals.
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Photos of the happy announcement of the project on a press conference:
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EU money…. ahhhh so after all ” Brussel ” is not that bad, is it, Mr. Victorinu Orbanicu?
“E.U. funds” is mostly money that Hungary paid into the E.U.’s coffers, plus a couple hundred euros per person per year. Nothing to write home about.
That is the propaganda. Here is the real thing: Only 9 countries are PLUS contributors – Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Finland and Ireland. The rest are NEGATIVE meaning taking out MORE that contributing. Hungary almost the last one on the list, with the most taken out -4,206 million Euros. @Michael Steiner