Erdélyi Katalin

Idegenforgalmi végzettséggel, hobbiból kezdett közéleti visszásságokról írni a Vastagbőr-blogon 2008-ban, majd beleszeretett az oknyomozó újságírásba. 2012 óta az Átlátszó munkatársa. 2018-ban elnyerte a Minőségi Újságírásért Díjat, és a Magyar Újságírók Országos Szövetsége Gazdasági Újságírók Szakosztályától „Az év gazdasági újságírója” díját kapta. 2019-ben Transparency–Soma Díjat kapott.

The Royals

Orban’s new, ‘austere’ office decorated with 38 pieces of historic artwork from public museums

Starting January 2019, the Office of the Prime Minister is not in the House of Parliament any longer. Viktor Orban’s...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2019. jan. 28.

How to waste public funds

Energy consumption was not reduced by EU-funded LED lights installed by company of PM Orban’s son-in-law

The town of Vác received 421.9 million Hungarian forints (€1.31 million at today’s exchange rate) from the European Union for...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2019. jan. 18.

Propaganda machine

Hungarian government spent €23 million of taxpayers’ money on propaganda before the election

The Hungarian government spent 23 million euros on ‘government communications’ in the month before the April 8th election. The infamous...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2018. máj. 30.

Friends of Orban

State-owned Hungarian energy group gave €1,7 million to NGO favored by Orban to ‘improve public thinking’

The state-owned Hungarian energy giant, MVM donated a huge sum to an NGO favored by the prime minister in...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2018. máj. 20.

Rule of law

Tighter visitation rules in prisons did not lower the amount of contraband

New rules by Hungarian prison authorities are making life harder for prisoners and their families: with no touching allowed, wifes...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2018. máj. 4.

Propaganda machine

Viktor Orban lied: the Hungarian government does not have a list of ‘Soros mercenaries’

The government of Hungary knows George Soros’s mercenaries by name – said Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban a little more...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2018. ápr. 29.

Propaganda machine

Government-leaning media forced by courts to issue high number of corrections

According to data we received from the Budapest Court, government-leaning media outlets had to issue 53 court-mandated corrections last year....

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2018. Már. 24.

Propaganda machine

Hungarian government spent €8.1 million on its latest ‘Stop Soros’ campaign

The Hungarian government keeps spending huge amounts of taxpayer money on anti-Soros propaganda. Just in two months – in December...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2018. Már. 22.

Friends of Orban

OLAF’s letters to Hungarian towns reveal details of fraudulent street light modernization projects

News broke in January that the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) finished a two-year investigation into EU-funded street light modernization programs...

Erdélyi Katalin

— 2018. Már. 2.

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