A 9.4 billion Ft building programme inside a university freeze — worth scrutinising

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The University trains the officer and civil-service intake for public administration, defence, law enforcement and national security; in 2025 it admitted over 2,400 new students, the largest group in its Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies.[^2] A state that maintains a defence and rule-of-law apparatus has a defensible interest in the supply of trained officers and administrators for it — that part of the mandate sits close to a constitutional-precondition function. But "the state needs trained administrators" does not establish that the state must operate a dedicated single-purpose university to produce them: public-administration, law and international-relations degrees are supplied across the ordinary Hungarian university sector, and officer training proper is the narrower, genuinely state-specific core. The honest classification is therefore a nominal freeze rather than a Keep — hold the 46.7 milliárd Ft envelope flat, let real-terms erosion apply, and use the decade to separate the genuinely state-specific officer-cadet function (which a reformed institution would retain) from the general public-administration teaching that the competitive university sector already provides. A capital line of 9,427.6 millió Ft inside a freeze warrants particular scrutiny: a frozen institution should not be carrying a near-10-milliárd-Ft annual building programme without a specific, time-limited justification.