Election 2018 – Leftist PM candidate pledges to review spending of EU funds
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If the opposition Socialists-Párbeszéd alliance forms the government after the April 8 parliamentary election, it will immediately suspend the payment of European Union funds and review each winning bid, the PM candidate of the two parties said on Sunday.
“Today over half of EU funding is getting stolen in Hungary while the other half is being spent on silly projects,” Gergely Karácsony told a press conference in Budapest.
“We’ve had enough of light railways, fountains, horse-wellness and vanity projects in Hungary, and we’ve had enough of funds being distributed for projects among the cronies of ruling Fidesz,” he said.
Karácsony pledged to direct EU funds towards improving energy efficiency and social security, and reforming health-care and education.
He also pledged to set up an authority to investigate and prosecute corruption.
During the next EU budgetary period starting in 2020, he said they would seek to win significant funding to develop “human resources” in central and eastern Europe.
As I said, you are all liars. Come up with some definite truth and we might believe you. Until then, crawl back into your pathetic holes and don’t come out. God Bless Orbán Viktor and Hungary.
The first few things Karácsony would say is “thanks for electing us! um, we checked the appropriation of funds and we didn’t find anything wrong. As the M4 project, we lost all the data.”