Hungary’s Asbestos Scandal: Austrian Quarries Exploited an EU Loophole
Mining for the purpose of extracting asbestos is prohibited. But the Burgenland quarries were not mining asbestos — they were mining crushed stone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.