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The Békéscsaba-Lőkösháza railway line in Hungary has become significantly more expensive than originally planned. Officials found a new way to justify cost overruns.

In the last 10 years Péter Szijjártó never flew on commercial flights to official visits. In July 15, a direct Budapest to Brussel flight was available, but the Minister opted to requisition an identical military-owned plane.

In an ongoing paid ad campaign, shown to millions of Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube users, an animated ad depicts Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar as trash to be dumped out.

Despite the fact that 2024 was an extremely dry year, farmers in the Eastern Hungary Water Management Directorate requested less irrigation water than in the previous year.

In a video report, we took a look at how water projects carried out by Mészáros and Mészáros Zrt. are progressing in Göd, Iváncsa and Debrecen, the sites of the largest Hungarian battery factories.

This time however, unlike previous instances, the expensive event will not be organized by the government's favorite propaganda supplier.

Roland Ceber, who was subjected to a travel ban and has been accused by the Orbán government of spying for Ukrainian intelligence, gave an interview to Átlátszó. Ceber denies the accusations and prepares for a lawsuit to overturn the ban.

The opposition TISZA Party claims that the database did not come from their servers, but volunteers on the lists confirmed to Átlátszó that they signed contracts with the party.

Hungarian public media has promised extremely close cooperation to its Chinese partners in several contracts.

According to a Spanish realtor, an unnamed Hungarian buyer with a wealth over 1.2 billion Euros is interested in a building in La Zagaleta. Only a few people in Hungary have the wealth to fit the description.

The proceedings are not only about the reputation of our newspaper, but also about all independent media and civil society organizations in Hungary, which are threatened to be blacklisted and made impossible with the so-called “transparency” bill.

Overnight, Ukrainian scammers have become one of the country’s biggest threats according to pro-government media, not long after Putin, followed by Orbán warned against Ukrainian cybercrime.

A company co-owned by businessmen close to both the Turkish and the Hungarian governments made billions on importing Turkish armored vehicles, but last year the firm's revenues plummeted.

The banker and agricultural baron has managed to secure the lead position ahead of global chemical giants like Bayer, Syngenta, and BASF.

Lőrinc Mészáros's company blames the Ukraine war on price increases when constructing water utilities of villages in Western Hungary, hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

Lőrinc Mészáros’s company continues to receive billions in public money to build waterworks for the battery plant which they were supposed to complete a year ago.

Among a founding members of the government's troll farm, Átlátszó spotted the head of a shady business network that sold seemingly ineffective medical devices to vulnerable pensioners.

Locals protested against the plant's operation and expansion in early May with a public forum and a petition with thousands of signatures.

After failing to conceal the costs of his private plane rides, Péter Szijjártó started using the less luxurious government jets.

Nemzeti Sport was acquired from by the state for 3.5 billion forints, and the cost for taxpayers does not stop there.