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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 01/09/2021
· Politics

Budapest won’t host the athletics championships in this case!

2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest Budapest Hungarian government Hungary
Budapest-athletics

MTI/Tamás Vasvári

The Budapest metropolitan assembly on Wednesday approved a proposal declaring that the city will not host the 2023 World Athletics Championships if the government approves the construction of a campus for China’s Fudan University in place of a students’ quarter in the capital’s 9th district.

The proposal, adopted with 18 votes in favour and 13 against, also requires the government to ensure the continuation of the Healthy Budapest scheme.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, who submitted the motion, said that the municipal council had approved the city staging the World Athletics Championships in an earlier agreement with the government. That deal also covered developments like the continuation of the Healthy Budapest Programme and the construction of the students’ quarter in the 9th district, he said. Karacsony insisted, however, that

the government had violated that agreement by passing the law on the establishment of a foundation to run Fudan University’s local campus.

The mayor said all the municipal council could do in this case was “make it as clear as possible” that Budapest would honour the agreement with the government, adding that scrapping the plans to build the students’ quarter would “trigger an irreversible process”.

Opposition PM candidate wants to cancel the Fudan project!

Referring to his talks with the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), Karácsony said it was clear that

“world championships are not held in a city which does not support the event”.

The assembly authorised the mayor to inform the IAAF about the decision should the government transfer the site on which the student complex should be built to the Fudan project. The assembly also called on the government not to go on with the Fudan project before a referendum was held on the contested scheme.

Deputies of the ruling parties said that the city’s withdrawing its support from the championships had “no legal relevance”.

Concerning the health programme, they said that the necessary financing was in place, but “there are delays in payments”.

Request submitted to register foundation supporting the Chinese Fudan University

Source: MTI

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3 Comments

  1. István says:
    01/09/2021 at 17:38

    I consider Karácsony a clown BUT I agree with the opposition to China’s Fudan University. I don’t trust communist China. We already have too many Chinese in Hungary. They will never become Hungarians.

  2. Cornelia says:
    02/09/2021 at 10:22

    This is BLACKMAIL!!
    Do you think by not allowing an insignificant university into Hungary is going to stop the Chinese?
    They bought half the world already, just look around . They are in Africa, the Middle East, all over Europe
    now in Afghanistan. and the US debt to China.

  3. Cornelia says:
    02/09/2021 at 21:38

    Want more???The Chinese to buy legendary Hungarian football team?!

    Read more at: https://dailynewshungary.com/chinese-investors-to-buy-ujpest-football-team-for-eur-20-million/
    China linked to takeover of Italian drone plant

    Just the begining.

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