The Hungarian union should receive 300,000 a year, Matica slovenská demands proportional funding

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BRATISLAVA. The Hungarian Social and Cultural Association in Slovakia, Csemadok, should receive a sum of 300,000 euros a year from the state budget. This was proposed in the Csemadok Financial Support Act by György Gyimesi (OĽaNO)

Matica slovenská in connection with the financing of Csemadoku says that its operating subsidy from the state was reduced by almost 400 thousand euros this year and therefore feels economic problems. )

Promoting culture

According to Gyimesi’s proposal, Csemadok would receive the aforementioned contribution of 300,000 from the budget chapter of the Ministry of Culture. This would be an amount that would be legally guaranteed each year. The bill aims to build on the broken continuity of this financial assistance and reintroduce the state contribution provided to this union, “said Gyimesi.

According to the administrator of the Matica slovenská Maroš Smolec

“Therefore, we do not fully understand why it was the cultural institution of the Slovak nation that reduced the subsidy this year. The funding of both cultural institutions should be proportional – according to the population in the Slovak Republic, “he told SITA Smolec.

As he further stated, he believes that the state will support Matica as a public law next year. institution with a higher amount. He pointed out that he had entrusted her with a number of tasks which she had to do from the allocated financial resources and that she received a subsidy through the Ministry of Culture.

managed to further increase, on the basis of negotiations with state officials in individual years, which helped Matica to keep its annual budgets within acceptable limits. Smolec described this year as a turning point, when the subsidy was “drastically” reduced by 23 percent.

According to Smolec, state grants from the Art Support Fund various events or when publishing book titles. He further stated that while in the period 2013-2016 the FPU provided Matica with 170,510 euros, for the period 2017-2020 it was 22,500 euros, while since 2019 Matica has not received anything, “despite the submission of a number of grant applications for

Change in funding

Last year, after the parliamentary elections, the topic of changes in funding was opened

The Ministry of Culture informed SITA today that the Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Culture has approved the establishment of a temporary working group for the change of financing and development of Matice slovenská. Its task will be to analyze the management of the Matrix, including the management of the printer Neography, in which Matica is the majority shareholder.

“The result of the working group should be a new financing model for Matica slovenská. In the current regime, Matica slovenská will receive EUR 1,344,600 per year, “said Ľubomír Ondrejkovič from the Department of Communication and Protocol of the Ministry of Culture.

According to Ondrejkovič, support for the culture of national minorities national minorities established by law. It defines the percentage redistribution of the total volume of resources in favor of individual minorities and on this basis does not depend on the results of the census. In the case of the Hungarian minority, it is 53 percent.

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