Govt to spend EUR 539 mn on infrastructure, science parks at 20 universities

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The government is ploughing 200 billion forints (EUR 539.0m) into the development of infrastructure and science parks at twenty universities which are either run by the state or by government-backed foundations, the innovation and technology minister said on Wednesday.

The funding is the first phase of a 2,700 billion forint development scheme, László Palkovics said. Projects are being funded at the Budapest University of Technology, Andrássy University, the University of Veterinary Science, four medical universities, the Óbuda University, the Miskolc University and the Hungarian Dance University, among others, he said.

Meanwhile,

the strike committees of teacher trade unions PSZ and PDSZ have called on the government, in an open letter, to meet their wage demands before Sunday’s general election.

The unions noted that the salaries of MPs had increased to three times the national average on March 1.

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