Until when do you have to drink your last beer in the party district of Budapest? – answers below

After May 18, the terraces of the pubs and restaurants in Budapest are allowed to open, but that brought the well-known problems of Budapest’s party district back again. Because of the coronavirus rules, only the terraces can open but thanks to a relevant regulation of the local government, even those have to close at 10 pm.

According to the regulation of the local government in the 7th district, by 10 pm, there cannot be any tables or chairs on the terraces, and that is monitored by the Erzsébetvárosi Rendészeti Igazgatóság, the law enforcement directorate of the 7th district. Furthermore, there have to be 2 metres between the road and the terrace on the pavement for the passengers, the terrace has to be at least 1 metre wide, and there cannot be music.

Owners think that the rules are too strict and some of them started to remain open even after 10 pm. However, according to index.hu, that is not an organised “resistance movement.”

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The new leftist mayor of the 7th district, former MEP Péter Niedermüller’s program was to reform the party district, and he said in this case on his Facebook page that even though the rules mentioned above were written in 2012, nobody checked their application. However, now they will do that, and Niedermüller cleared that