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The master navigator – portrait of attorney general Peter Polt
Attorney general is the top judiciary appointment in Hungary, ultimately, the person in charge who says who gets to appear...
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Atlatszo.hu’s enquiries lead to arrest warrant
The refusal of the MTVA foundation, the organisation responsible for Hungary’s public media, to comply with a freedom of information...
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Fidesz party continues to be generous to loyal communication firms
A recently published list of parliament contracts featured many familiar names – these are the communications companies which are continuing...
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Join the 4,000 and support Atlatszo.hu
Atlatszo.hu is calling on all those who believe that the independence of journalism in Hungary is under threat, that politics...
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Governing parties are overspending on 2014 campaign
Transparency International Hungary (TI), K-Monitor and Atlatszo.hu have united their efforts to find out how much parties are spending on...
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Hitler-praising film company contracted to show social housing ‘success’
Social housing project aimed to help people with collapsed mortgages cost 2.7 billion HUF, Interior Ministry’s Disaster Management Office told...
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Another 120 million HUF granted to Kálomista
Gábor Kálomista producer’s interests gained the same amount of public money since 2010 than they got in the previous 12...
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FOIA response shows trips to South America cost taxpayers a lot
According to a response to Atlatszo.hu’s FOIA request Foundation for Public Service Media (Közszolgálati Közalapítvány) spent 2.5 million Hungarian forints on...
election 2026
Hungary Votes for Change – Despite a System Built to Benefit Orbán
Hungary’s 2026 election brought historic political change, with the opposition overcoming a system tilted in favor of the ruling party.
election 2026
“Vampires don’t like sunlight” – how volunteer poll watchers stopped the vote-buying machine
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.
Budapest-Washington
Orbán’s foreign ‘fellow travellers’ cite privacy to shield state-funded payouts
Danube Institute, a center of Viktor Orbán's international unfluence network, cited “safety concerns” and “right to privacy” to keep high-paying government-funded contracts anonymous.
