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Prime Minister opens new, world-class scientific research centre
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Hungary is now stronger and in a position to spend more on culture as well as on intellectual and scientific projects, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday at the opening ceremony of a new facility to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).
The Prime Minister underlined that the new research centre was built at the lowest point of the European economic crisis, and after the Government had agreed with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences that funding for science would increase each year despite the crisis. The annual funding provided to the academy has thus jumped from 35 billion to 49 billion forints over the past 4 years.
Viktor Orbán recalled that although Hungary’s economic output shrank in 2012, the Government had upheld its earlier policies, with the result that the economy grew by 1.7 percent in the third quarter of 2013. The Prime Minster said he trusted that figures for the fourth quarter would build on that improvement, making Hungary the frontrunner of the region once again.