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High-budget research institutes have been evolving one after another since the Orbán government came to power in 2010, which, according to the expert, is doing no assessable work.
What they have in common is that they were not caused by scientific necessity, but by some political will. According to the historian Krisztián Ungváry, this is the main characteristic of the institutions established by the government or belonging to the lunar courtyard of Fidesz, writes Népszava. Some play an ideological role, others simply act as pay points.
The historian, for example, described the Imre Kertész Institute, which was delivered the other day, as a “one-man play” by Mária Schmidt. The goal is to make the Nobel Prize winning writer an icon of the right after his death. Krisztián Ungváry ranked the National Institute for Strategic Research as one of the typical pay points, which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán asked Jenő Szász, former mayor of Odorheiu Secuiesc, to lead in 2012.
When Péter Ungár from LMP asked last year, “What miracle is the National Institute for Strategic Research really doing, Jenő Szász said:” some of its actions are not made public, the beneficiaries are government actors. “The institute can manage more than 1 billion guilders a year, but in Ungváry’s terms, the National Memorial Committee (NEB) led by Kiss Réka Földváry also receives an “unbeatable amount”.
The name “committee” is somewhat misleading: in this case too it is an institution, more precisely a budget body. Its task is “to preserve the state memory of the communist dictatorship, to explore the functioning of the power of the communist dictatorship.”
According to last year’s report, the Archives Research Institute and Institute for the History of Regime Change (Retörki), also founded in 2013, received around HUF 300 million from the budget. Miklós Kásler, the Minister of Human Resources, made his dream come true by establishing an alternative prehistory, the Hungarian-Hungarian Research Institute, which prefers Hungarian kinship. The institute started last year with an operating grant of $ 800 million, with a budget already planned for it of nearly $ 1.4 billion this year.
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