A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
1.6 billion Ft for minority community projects — chosen from the centre
Project support for Hungary's domestic minority communities costs 1,640 million Ft — discretionary project grants that bypass the elected minority self-governments retained and funded under the same reform.
About 411 Ft per taxpayer per year for minority community projects allocated by central grant, not by the self-governments those communities elected.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: cultural events, community initiatives, and civic projects run by minority communities with central project funding. The unseen: the minority community member who elected a self-government to represent their interests — but whose community's project priorities are overridden by the central grant selector, which decides which projects receive the 1.6 billion Ft.
Ellenvetés
"Community project funding reaches grassroots minority initiatives that self-governments can't always fund."
Válasz
The self-governments are the democratic mechanism for exactly that choice. A central grant that operates in parallel with the self-government — allocating project money independently of what the self-government would prioritise — diminishes rather than supports self-government. The three-year phase-out transfers the project-funding decision to the community's own elected institutions; it does not remove funding from minority communities.
Share if you think minority community projects should be funded through elected self-governments, not central grants.
Az elemző értékelése
A hazai nemzetiségi közösségek céljait szolgáló projektek támogatása
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
The distinction here turns on a rights consideration. Hungary's recognised national minorities have a constitutional and statutory framework of minority self-government — elected bodies with a defined institutional role. Funding the operation of those elected self-governing bodies and the core institutions they maintain sits close to a constitutional-precondition function: it finances the machinery through which a recognised community exercises collective self-administration, analogous to financing a tier of local government. Those two lines are Keep. The discretionary grant lines — general "minority subsidies", media support, project funding, investment grants — are a different thing: subjective allocation by political officeholders to minority-sector recipients of their choosing, with the same calculation and rent problems as the civil and church grant pools. Those phase out over three years, during which minority organisations can migrate to community funding and to the budgets of their own self-governments.
Átállási mechanizmus
Retain the self-government operating and institution lines. Phase the discretionary grant lines linearly over three years; the minority self-governments themselves, retained, become the natural channel for any prioritisation their communities choose to fund.
Érintett csoportok
Minority organisations on discretionary project grants, who transition over three years; the self-governments and their core institutions are unaffected.
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