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State companies and other firms are paying consultancy fees of hundreds of millions of forints to the advertising agency owned...

The public-funded Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) is paying handsomely its full members – average age 74 – while young...

Although the Hungarian national football team didn’t make it to the World Cup, the 2014 budget will ensure that further...

As founder of Glencore the fittingly named Mark Rich pioneered global commodity trading and held business interests all over the...

The saga of Metro Line 4 The idea of building a fourth underground line for Budapest has been a political...

Atlatszo.hu last week received a press award for its coverage of the controversial plan to construct a mobile dam at...

Hungary’s first bribe-tracking website Fizettem.hu received around two hundred accounts of kickbacks being solicited or paid in its first week,...

A high profile right-wing journalist branded Budapest-based foreign correspondents “shitheads” and “assholes” in an expletive-strewn email to members of the...

Atlatszo has successfully sued the government over its refusal to release the names of former communist party officials. The High...

The recently released former boss of a company involved in a 1.2 billion forints money-laundering case has been warned of...

The National Development Ministry (NFM) has rejected Atlatszo’s request for documents regarding suspicious tenders based on a list of tobacco...

This is one blow to EU officialdom that will not delight the Hungarian government: the Court of Justice of the...

Publisher Demax Művek’s number of successful state tender applications has risen from eight to 20 in this government cycle, increasing...

The transport authority KKK has called “entirely routine” the last-minute repairs made to country roads before the wedding reception of...

The Hungarian government is among the users of Finfisher, a surveillance software package used by oppressive regimes, according to Citizenlab,...

According to András Horváth, a tax inspector who just left Hungary’s National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV), corruption at governmental...

The state media fund MTVA paid Fidesz MP-turned marketing man Attila Várhegyi over HUF 10mn for six months of work...

Hungary’s film czar Andy Vajna is benefitting from a government law change that secured 20% tax breaks for video game...

The State Opera House wasted HUF 167.5 million in dubious contractual payments from 2007-10, while millions more remain missing, a...

The National Development Agency (NFÜ), which distributes EU funds, has cancelled planned subsidies for photovoltaic (PV) solar power plants after...