It turned out that Budapest and its surroundings will receive a gigantic amount of money from the EU by 2027

The entry was made after 444.hu wrote on the basis of the new EU cycle planning material it received: the capital’s leadership could have a say in the distribution of just HUF 5 billion from the new EU budget. EU of 11 billion, which is the European Regional Development Fund for the capital 20% of the Fund (ERDF). On this basis, we wrote yesterday that the capital could receive 25 billion HUF from the ERDF for 7 years, but

Domonkos Schneller clarified them significantly and added completely new numbers in his post.

One of them is that the government would involve capital management in the direct distribution of HUF 12 billion instead of HUF 5 billion, and the ERDF endowment itself is HUF 25 billion, not HUF 25 billion. million HUF. The far more far-reaching information is that the government is planning to allocate HUF 745 billion from the EU Instrument for Recovery and Resilience (FRR) of almost HUF 6 billion in relation to Budapest. Here of course It remains questionable to what extent the government of the capital would participate in the coordination and distribution of this money;, so it is no coincidence that GErgely Christmas took a pen and wrote to Viktor Orbán:

So far, little information is known about the content of the RRF for the entire country, according to the government’s decision last week. In Magyar Közlöny last week, so much was published that the 9 target areas, as well as Viktor Orbán and László Palkovics indicated that green and digitization targets will dominate the use of the nearly 600 billion HUF budget, and 1,500 billion will go to university development. Some of this will probably “condense” in Budapest, so some of the previous budget of $ 745 billion will certainly come from this.

The gist of the Facebook post written by Undersecretary of State Domonkos Schneller:

• To the ERDF framework for Budapest must be added the mandatory Hungarian state supplement (deductible), so in fact the government allocates a budget of HUF 60 billion to capital for sustainable urban development. Of these 60 billion, according to the article, 80% (that is, 48 ​​billion) will be the proportion of priority projects (going to pre-established goals), which specifically covers park developments (for example, Városmajor, Gellért Public Park Hill, new Csepel Public Park). An additional 20% (12 billion) would be distributed through direct bidding, involving the leadership of the capital.
• The fact that the municipal management itself participates in the distribution of 20% of the ERDF endowment of the capital exceeds the 15% participation in VEKOP during the István Tarlós mayorship. The Deputy Secretary of State also pointed out that even in large ERCs, local cities participate in the distribution of only 20% of their shares within the ERDF, so that Budapest is not at a disadvantage in this regard either.
• The government will offset the ERDF endowment of HUF 60 billion “much more than in previous periods from other EU sources, the Cohesion Fund and FRR”, that is, from the EU Recovery and Resilience Instrument, Domonkos said. Schneller. He added: “Hungary has not yet released final project lists, but according to the current status, the government will spend HUF 745 billion RRF and more than HUF 500 billion of the new IKOP planned for developments in Budapest.” For the moment, the big question is how much the government would involve the capital’s leadership in coordinating and distributing these.
• It also reveals which projects the government plans to spend money on: “For example, the complete renovation of the HÉV network that carries 245,000 passengers a day, amounting to many hundreds of billions (!) Of florins, including a deep tunnel to Kálvin ter in the entire southern part of the population of Budapest. In addition, the Gödöllő and Szentendre lines will also be renovated with EU funds, and the HÉV lines will receive around 71 new, air-conditioned and quietly gliding trains worth hundreds of billions of guilders (instead of 50 years, really “stopped” vehicles). We can also translate it: many hundreds of thousands of Budapest ”.
• Furthermore, he revealed that “many tens of billions of guilders are planned for the revitalization of the Ráckeve – (Soroksár-) Danube branch, which was partially destroyed by the oil that had been used a few weeks ago. Sewage, habitat restoration, from the Kvassay lock to the Tassi structure, that is, almost 57 kilometers. If successful, this will be the largest continuous environmental investment targeting biodiversity in Budapest in decades. “
• Furthermore, taking into account the example of the Berlin S-Bahn, the South Rotunda project will also be built from many hundreds of billions of guilders at the expense of EU funds, creating a fast ring connection, frequent and convenient among the suburbs of Újbuda. , Ferencváros and Kőbánya: the replacement of the elements of the southern railway bridge in the framework of this project is already underway ”.

At the end of his term, the Undersecretary of State also notes that “Meanwhile, the government is planning a new bridge to the south of Budapest from national sources and has provided the Metropolitan Municipality with many hundreds of millions of florins for study. of viability next bridge in the city, the Aquincum Bridge. He is ordering the also rotten Citadel, finishing the abandoned Biodome in place of the Metropolitan Municipality, expanding the tram line at the Technical University dock… and it could be listed until the sun ”.

Cover image source: MTI Photo: Balogh Zoltán. The Fővám tér tram stop on January 28, 2017. The cold weather will also remain in Budapest for the next few days.