The Royals
Museum of Applied Arts secretive about artwork loaned to the prime minister’s office
Since January 2019, the Office of the Prime Minister is not in the House of Parliament any longer. Viktor Orban’s...
Budapest-Washington
Thomas O. Melia on Orban’s WH visit: Trump has a pattern of embracing authoritarian leaders
Viktor Orban was the first leaders to openly support the candidacy of Donald Trump in 2016 and one of the...
Propaganda machine
Hungarian government is about to spend another €31 million on propaganda
In the middle of April, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister signed a framework contract worth HUF 10 billion...
Running in the family
This is how authorities sabotaged the fraud investigation against Orban’s son-in-law
István Tiborcz, the Hungarian prime minister’s son-in-law entered the exclusive club of the 100 richest people of Hungary. Moreover, with...
Propaganda machine
Hungarian government spent €48 million on propaganda in first three months of 2019
The government of Hungary spent 15.4 billion Hungarian forints (approximately 48 million euros at today’s exchange rate) on spreading its...
How to waste public funds
President Áder’s foundation given €4.7 million every year by Viktor Orban’s office
One of the most important topics for President János Áder is environmental protection. Thus nobody was surprised to hear that...
Investigative journalism
How We Did It: A Private Yacht, a Luxury Jet and Hungary’s Governing Elite
In the hot summer of 2018, our reporting team at Hungary’s Atlatszo tracked two luxury vehicles – a private plane...
chinese-hungarian relations
Reconstruction of the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway is delayed again
The planned reconstruction of the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway is being delayed again. If finished, it would be...
Freedom of Information
State-owned lottery company gives €219,000 to NGO favored by the government
The state-owned lottery company gave 70 million Hungarian forints (approximately €219,000 at today’s exchange rate) to pro-government NGO called CÖF/CÖKA....
Friends of Orban
Mészáros children win school reconstruction projects with overpriced offers
The company owned by the children of oligarch Lőrinc Mészáros was contracted to deliver two major infrastructure projects in the...
