Some 1,200 villages have been supplied with minibuses worth 18 billion forints (EUR 43.4m) for communal services, and 381 billion forints have been spent on local infrastructure projects.
Speaking at parliament's judicial committee on Wednesday, Gergely Gulyás, Head of the Prime Minister's Office, said that thanks to the government's Magyar Falu (Hungarian Village) program, the population of some 1,200 small settlements has started growing again.