Planning in Hungary and the EU requirements

Abstract

We can agree with the statements of Gusztáv Báger's discussion paper, according to which there would be a need to develop a coherent strategy combining different policies and sectors, economic and social goals and creating harmony between the different areas and defining a long term framework and instruments of Hungarian economic development. Countless sectoral and policy strategies have been drawn up in recent years (and so often been changed). In summary, less would have been more: the efficiency of the separate and uncoordinated strategies, which lacked a coherent, holistic approach and long term vision, was extremely low, they practically aimed at ticking off the task.