A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
1.8 billion Ft in development grants to businesses and organisations outside Hungary.
Economic development subsidies to Hungarian-minority communities and firms in neighbouring countries, allocated by the foreign ministry from the general tax pool.
Roughly 440 Ft per taxpayer per year — 1,766 million Ft flowing to commercial and community organisations across the border, selected by ministerial discretion.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: the business or community organisation abroad that receives a development grant. The unseen: the taxpayer inside Hungary who funds a cross-border commercial subsidy with no contractual or rights-protection basis — and no market price to confirm the grant went to its highest-value use.
Ellenvetés
"Supporting Hungarian-minority communities abroad is a national obligation — cutting this abandons diaspora Hungarians."
Válasz
Cultural and community support for diaspora Hungarians is a different category from economic-development grants to commercial organisations. The former has a genuine protective rationale; the latter is a commercial subsidy whose recipients happen to be ethnically Hungarian. Grants to minority businesses outside Hungary carry the same allocation problem as grants to businesses inside: a political office decides who wins, without a market price to check the decision.
Share if you think cross-border development grants should be held to the same standard as domestic ones.
Az elemző értékelése
Határon túli gazdaságfejlesztési, egyéb fejlesztési és kutatási programok
Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.
Indoklás
This line funds economic-development grants to Hungarian-minority communities and businesses in neighbouring countries. The activity is a discretionary transfer: the foreign ministry selects recipient projects and businesses abroad and funds them from the Hungarian general taxpayer. The recipients are commercial and community organisations outside Hungary; the beneficiary is concentrated and identifiable, the cost diffuse. There is no rights-protection or rule-of-law-infrastructure rationale, and a discretionary grant line creates no contractual entitlement to continuation. The line can be closed in a single cycle.
Átállási mechanizmus
Eliminate the appropriation in 2026.
Érintett csoportok
Cross-border community and business grant recipients.
Szabad Társadalom Intézet
Támogasd a független elemzéseket
Kutatásunk ingyenes, nyílt és nem szponzorált. Ha hasznosnak találod, segíts fenntartani.