Hungarian Cultural Sphere in the Shadow of the Pandemic

– Crisis Management at the Border of Economic and Cultural Policy

Abstract

The study shows the connection between cultural and economic policy in the Hungarian government’s pandemic crisis management. During the coronavirus pandemic, the Hungarian government applied the tools of international, especially EU crisis management strategies in the cultural sphere as well. Among these, a wide spectrum of protection measures was a marked intervention, but it can be stated that the government’s priority of job protection prevailed in the cultural sector as well, which was supposed to be guaranteed by tax incentives and the wage support program. Also, the Government supplemented these measures with direct subsidies.