STREET MUSIC FOR HUF 100 MILLION

During the election campaign the Prime Minister’s Office spent HUF 135 million to hire bands to entertain the citizens of Budapest.

The Prime Minister’s Office has spent HUF 135 million for a series of programmes called ’Early Summer Music’ and while the rock music bands were playing they distrubuted leaflets about the European Union. The original aim was ’to confirm the feeling of European citizenship’ in the people of Budapest. Péter Szijjártó MP (Fidesz) said instead of squandering so much money the government should have kept its election promises and should have given real information about the conditions of the EU accession.


Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó