EU programme co-financing: a freeze, not a fixture

Rationale

This line provides national co-financing and administrative support for directly-managed EU programmes — programmes contracted directly with the European Commission rather than channelled through the national operational programmes. While Hungary remains an EU member and these programme agreements bind, the national co-financing commitments attached to them are contractual obligations to programme counterparties; they are a parameter of the transition path, not a discretionary line the budget can simply cancel without abrogating commitments made in good faith. At the same time the line is not a function the classical-liberal frame would treat as a permanent Keep — it exists because of Hungary's current EU programme participation, and its appropriate long-run treatment depends on decisions about that participation that sit far outside this chapter. A Nominal Freeze is the honest interim classification: it holds the line at its current level, honours in-flight programme commitments, authorises no expansion, and lets real-terms erosion reduce its real share while the broader question of programme participation is decided elsewhere.