The state should take a more active role in financing culture and arts, main opposition Fidesz party parliamentary group leader Tibor Navracsics said on Saturday.
A culture working group of Fidesz, which is leading the governing Socialists in polls, met to devise strategy.
The party’s culture expert Janos Halasz said the current government practice of cutting the budgets of cultural institutions and making promises of private sector funding should be abandoned.
Private capital will only support culture if the state spends considerable amounts in this area, in the form of direct grants and tax rebates, Halasz said.
Janos Schiffer of the governing Socialist party, in response told MTI that in the current economic situation they need to cut budget expenditure, but culture has suffered these cuts less than other areas.
