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The proposed ammendent to the law regulating the Integrity Authority would have effectively legalized collective punishment.

The historic castle hotel now stands with broken windows, a leaky roof, and moldy, water-stained walls that have crumbled in places, waiting to collapse. Video report.

Following Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat, the collapse of state advertising revenues has triggered mass layoffs across Hungary’s pro-government media empire, exposing its long-standing dependence on public funding.

Last year, a Hungarian volunteer was killed near Kharkiv. We were there when the father traveled to Ukraine again to visit his son’s grave.

Mining for the purpose of extracting asbestos is prohibited. But the Burgenland quarries were not mining asbestos — they were mining crushed stone.

Ferenc Pál Biró, head of the Integrity Authority has been charged with using official assets for personal use and hiring family friend without the proper qualifications.

Last year, Fidesz MPs supplemented their reelection campaigns by public handovers of toy motorcycles to daycares. The toys were bought for 3 times the market price from Gyula Balásy's companies.

Two mayors, both dealing with environmental concerns by a nearby battery processing facilities, explain their fundamentally different approach to the same problem.

During the Orbán era, ministries distinguished between "hostile" and "firendly" media when answering inquiries, and every reply had to be approved from the top. Things began to change after the election.

A former tabloid journalist, Ágnes Forgács worked for Ripost, an outlet that combined tabloid methods with intelligence material likely coming from government sources for political goals.

We looked into the contracts of the Danube Institute, through which the previous gorvernment payments millions to the European right-wing populist movement and U.S. public figures close to Trump.

We understand that the Tisza Party intends to offer "Buddha" an important position in the Ministry of the Interior, but they have not responded to our questions regarding his past.

Environmental regulations in the automotive industry are stricter in Hungary than in Germany, said PM Viktor Orbán in 2023. He was mistaken.

The activities of Brussels-based news site Brussels Signal were financed in full by Fidesz-aligned media holding Mediaworks during 2024, to the tune of EUR 1.5m.

Entities in the orbit of BLA, MCC – known financiers of the Orbán government’s influence machinery – revealed to have received funding from Hungarian culture fund’s scandalous recent grants.

They classify the defective batteries as ordinary goods and do not label the shipment as hazardous; they transport them to warehouses in Hungary and then on to Poland.

Despite handling hazardous materials, the authorities did not require the battery waste processing plant to acquire an environmental permit.

The government has not only stoked anti-refugee sentiment but has also linked existing anti-Roma prejudices to this new enemy stereotype.

Hungary’s 2026 election brought historic political change, with the opposition overcoming a system tilted in favor of the ruling party.

Over the past two decades, systemic election fraud, vote-buying for money and drugs, and blackmail has ran rampant in the impoverished countryside of Hungary. We talked to the head of the volunteer group who decided to put a stop to this practice.