environment 
29/03/2022 7
State agencies hide monitoring data gathered on groundwater in Hungary
The fact that nothing is known about the state of groundwater is a sad example of the deplorable state of...
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environment 
19/11/2021 8
UNESCO-protected area in a national park is destroyed for a state funded luxury investment
Following visits by fishing clubs, winegrowers and school groups, finally a member of parliament was also allowed onto the construction...
environment 
03/07/2021 4
Heartbreaking pictures: the last wooden stilt house is demolished on Lake Fertő
Local people, Hungarian and Austrian environmentalists, as well as UNESCO and the EU, are protesting against the government’s gigantic project...
environment 
01/10/2020 4
Luxury villas and pools in the protected area – illegal construction on the rise at the Tihany Peninsula
Hungary’s first nature reserve was established here in 1952. It is part of the Balaton Uplands National Park, a Natura 2000...
environment 
25/09/2020 4
Locals protest landfill to be extended near national park – drone video of the garbage dump
“Too high a rubbish hill would stick out from the landscape of the Great Plain” – one of the council...
environment 
26/06/2020 10
In Hungary, environmental protection is crippled so as not to hinder economic development
There are only four countries in the world that do not have an independent Ministry of the Environment: Saudi Arabia,...
environment 
09/06/2020 7
Leaked ministerial proposal recommends nationalization and concession of waste management in Hungary
According to a ministerial proposal which was leaked to Atlatszo, waste management would eventually become an exclusively central-government controlled practice...
environment 
07/05/2020 4
Mészáros Group acquires lucrative toxic waste processing site after the state renewed its permit
Environmental license of the Tatai Environmental Protection Ltd.’s hazardous waste processing plant at the Almásfüzitő red mud reservoirs was renewed in December 2019....
environment 
27/04/2020 5
Lőrinc Mészáros' starch factory polluted the water reservoir of the Mátra Power Plant
Visonta-based Viresol filed a lawsuit against Atlatszo when we first reported about their pollution in November, which caused toxic gas...
environment
04/03/2020 16
Hazardous waste deposit at the red sludge reservoirs in Almásfüzitő was issued a new permit
After several years of waiting, a new environmental permit was granted in December 2019 to Tatai Environmental Protection Ltd. (TKV)’s...
environment 
23/12/2019 5
Stench, fire, flies & rats – billions of forints disappearing from waste facility near Balatonfűzfő
After one hot summer day, residents of Balatonfűzfő would open their windows to ventilate their homes, but instead of the...