HATC SAMPLE EDITION:    Politics & Foreign Relations    Economic News    Business News    Other News of Interest    All stories	29th July, 2010 PPP investment projects to be scrapped The cabinet will no longer employ public-private partnership (PPP) investment projects as they act as a cover for injurious contracts, National Development Ministry state secretary Sára Nemes-Hegmann told Inforádió on Wednesday. It has been proven in several cases that off-shore companies were at the end of the line, which is unacceptable when public funds are being utilised, Nemes-Hegmann said. The overhaul of the Erkel Theatre and the National Museum underground garage construction project will be halted, but work on the Technical University, a University of Medicine dormitory and Gödöllő Agricultural University will go on “because it would not make sense to halt those projects,” Nemes-Hegmann added. Lawyers and experts are presently investigating all of Hungary’s PPP projects. Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).
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