Hungarian government promises to raise teachers’ wages until 2025
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The government aims to spend a total of 1,200 billion forints (EUR 3bn) on raising teachers’ wages between now and 2025, covering half of the amount from domestic resources and the other half from EU funds, the state secretary in charge of public education said in Eger, in northern Hungary, on Tuesday.
“The government also sees clearly the need for a significant wage increase in the public education sector,” Zoltán Maruzsa told the 24th conference of national public education and vocational training experts.
He said that in a new development, European Union funds are available for implementing the measure in the framework of the 2021-2027 EU funding cycle. “We need that because the cabinet has limited financial resources to use particularly now, in the current utility costs situation,” Maruzsa said. “It is now hard for the cabinet to see how many thousands of billions of forints it will need to burn up in the coming months by paying for gas bills that it did not have to cover last year.”
Propaganda.
It’s called “on the drip” – very very slow process – lots of stops and starts – lots of excuses.
Reason being – guarantee of Funds being available to meet commitment’s – never any assurance that funds are going to be there – available, to meet arrangements.
The Orban Government – a history of promises and “drip systems” that have fallen over never been MEET, and this has the making of being another.