Parents, former students and teachers have described an atmosphere of fear, humiliation and excessive workloads at the Hungarian National Ballet Institute, a fee-paying ballet school operated by the Hungarian State Opera.
Átlátszó followed the election from Senta (Zenta), a predominantly Hungarian town in northern Serbia, where artist and longtime anti-government activist Tibor Lázár was elected to parliament on the students’ list.
The Orbán government gave billions of forints to the companies of Gyula Balásy to build and operate military-themed adventure parks, which have fallen to disrepair in under a year.
Ágnes Forgács, a former employee of the pro-government tabloid Ripost spoke of surveillance of political opponents in an interview with Atlatszo in May. She is now a suspect in the case she helped expose.
The Ministry of Justice, acting as the office's legal successor, has agreed to pay HUF 3.8 million in damages and cover legal expenses.
A series of articles by Átlátszó exposing the overpricing of EU-funded food aid packages has been named among the six finalists for the Helen Darbishire Award.
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