Ungarn: Ein Kreisverkehr, der ins Nirgendwo führt, mitten auf einem Feld, gebaut mit 500 Millionen Forint (1,3 Millionen €) EU-Geldern

Source: [https://atlatszo.hu/orszagszerte/2025/10/18/sehonnan-sehova-vezeto-korforgalom-a-mezon-500-millio-forintnyi-eu-s-penzbol/](https://atlatszo.hu/orszagszerte/2025/10/18/sehonnan-sehova-vezeto-korforgalom-a-mezon-500-millio-forintnyi-eu-s-penzbol/)

The roundabout between Zalaegerszeg and Zalaszentiván looks as if someone accidentally dropped it there, as it connects nothing to anything, just standing alone in the middle of a field. Next to it is a large project sign indicating that the municipality of Zalaegerszeg spent more than 500 million forints of EU funding on it. We looked into the history of this absurd-looking investment, which began a good four years ago.

**In theory, a private company, Metrans, will build a logistics center and container terminal on the site, for which the roundabout was built. However, Metrans‘ project, announced in 2021, has not even started yet, because it requires a railway development that the government promised four years ago but has not yet begun.**

**In February 2021, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó announced that Metrans, a freight forwarding company, would build a container terminal and logistics center in Zalaegerszeg at a cost of HUF 15.7 billion.** The German-owned company’s goal with this investment was to enable goods arriving by rail from Adriatic ports (Trieste, Koper, Fiume) to be transported onward to Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland without having to pass through Budapest.

**In order to support the investment, the local government of Zalaegerszeg undertook to build an access road and a roundabout leading to the future container terminal, as well as to provide public utilities to the area purchased by the company. The local government has already fulfilled its commitments by the end of 2023, which can currently be seen on site.** As stated on the project sign next to the lonely roundabout, the work was carried out by Zalaegerszeg with more than 500 million forints in European Union funding.

**To put it mildly, the government did not rush into the delta track project: it was only a year after the foundation stone of the container terminal was laid, in the fall of 2022, that the Ministry of Construction and Transport, together with the railway company concerned, GYSEV, requested support from the EU**. The European Commission decided to provide funding for the Zalaszentiván delta track, and the agreement was signed in June 2023, but then another year passed in anticipation.

**GYSEV only issued the public procurement tender for the construction in the fall of 2024, but the results have not yet been announced, even though the application deadline expired in March 2025. According to preliminary information, the cost of constructing the delta track is expected to be HUF 12 billion, which will be paid roughly half by the EU and half by the Hungarian state.**

No responsibilities whatsoever. No accountabilities whatsoever. Kleptocracy.

Maybe they were just learning how to make roundabouts up to EU safety standards, sort of getting practical hands on experience, you know 😅

i thought it was some hyperrealistic cities skylines screenshot lmao

yep sounds like my city skylines world

I would buy that for 150€s take it or leave it

I thought for a moment that it was a cities skylines screenshot

Ah, the sweet return to communist level of corruption. To quote some good sayings of the era: „the idea is to build, not to get built“ and from polish cult classic Miś: „You can make real money only on expensive straw investments.“

Ah yes but according to Orban and his cronies, Brussels is evil and corrupt. Go look at yourself in the mirror

This can be an airdrome no?

Built by a Company of an Orban Buddy. Or a Company that is owned by Orban via some Strawmen, I presume.

Orbans friends get wealthy from our money

Me when I try to build a new city in Cities Skylines

A few examples I saw in Bulgaria about 15 years ago, a bridge being painted for years as workers just paid by day until done with EU funds. A mayor would took millions of euros in funding for town and just disappeared. Huge estates with signs saying „EU development coming soon“ sitting barron for years. The waste across EU is pretty crazy

They should be kicked from EU. I know it is not currently possible but we need a new treaty where we can do stuff with majority, not 100% unity. We can just demand 80% majority or something, 50% is not good.