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A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből

Cultural diplomacy abroad: a standing network, held at its current cost.

834 millió Ft for Hungarian cultural institutes abroad and cross-border cultural tasks — modest sums supporting an in-place network, frozen rather than cut, real-terms pressure applied gently.

Roughly 209 Ft per taxpayer per year — 834 millió Ft for the operating budgets of Hungary's network of cultural institutes abroad.

1 milliárd Ft előirányzat 185 Ft / adózó / év

Amit látsz — és amit nem

The seen: Hungarian cultural institutes in foreign cities promoting language, culture, and artistic exchange. The unseen: the alternative — diaspora organisations, universities, and cultural bodies that conduct the same outreach voluntarily in many countries — that a state diplomatic cultural network partially substitutes for.

Ellenvetés

"Hungarian cultural presence abroad protects the language and community ties of Hungarians living outside the country."

Válasz

A nominal freeze does not dismantle the network — it holds the cost flat, allowing real-terms erosion to apply steady discipline while in-place commitments continue. Diaspora communities and cross-border cultural ties are also sustained by non-state organisations; this line is a complement to them, not a substitute.

Share if you think cultural diplomacy should earn its budget, not just hold it.

Az elemző értékelése

Kulturális intézetek szakmai kerete és határon túli kulturális feladatok

Az elemző indoklása jelenleg angol nyelven elérhető; magyar fordítás folyamatban.

Indoklás

Operating budgets for the network of Hungarian cultural institutes abroad and related cross-border cultural tasks. Cultural diplomacy is a discretionary activity, not a rights-protection function, but these are modest sums supporting a standing institutional network; a nominal freeze applies real-terms discipline without disrupting in-place commitments.

Átállási mechanizmus

Hold nominal.

Érintett csoportok

The cultural-institute network and its audiences abroad.

Szabad Társadalom Intézet

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