Budapest mayor Karácsony: Fidesz wants to deprive Budapest of EU funding

If it were up to the ruling Fidesz party’s group in the city assembly, Budapest would miss out on HUF 40 billion (EUR 100 million) of European Union funding, Gergely Karácsony, the capital’s mayor, said on Tuesday.

Referring to a proposal by the Fidesz group, Karácsony said they wanted to throw out a HUF 20 billion (EUR 50 million) housing programme prepared by the city administration and financed from EU coffers. Under the scheme, municipal rental units would be built and a rental subsidy provided to the needy, he noted.

Karácsony also said that Fidesz sought to transfer the city’s budget for green developments to the districts. “Even the poorest districts are now better off than the city,” he said, adding that he hoped the municipal assembly would not support Fidesz’s “crazy” proposals at its session on Wednesday.

Read also:

• VIDEO – Budapest mayor Karácsony: Fifty-sixers ‘knew only a brave nation can be free’
• Budapest Mayor Karácsony urges Orbán to address housing crisis as rent prices soar – UPDATE