War machine 
30/10/2018 2
Hungary spent €67 million on reviving Hungarian weapons manufacturing
An enormous skeleton of a building had lied abandoned for years on an outlying plot in Kiskunfélegyháza suggesting that its...
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Investigative journalism 
23/10/2018 3
Atlatszo awarded the Prize for Quality Journalism for its investigation into Hungarian government elite using luxury yacht and private jet
Atlatszo journalists were awarded the Prize for Quality Journalism for the month of September. The award was given for the...
Friends of Orban 
23/10/2018 8
The Do-All, the Real Estate Agent and the Casino Man: three businessmen close to prime minister Orban control nearly 400 companies
Banks, hotels, casinos, factories, TV channels, newspapers, advertisement companies, building industry, or agriculture – three influential businessmen close to Viktor...
Freedom of Information 
20/10/2018 6
Invisible money: Hungarian government's €14 million grant for a soccer academy and stadiums in Vojvodina spent in a non-transparent way
The Hungarian government gave close to 14 million euros to the Vojvodina Sports Academy in 2016 and 2017. Most of...
How to waste public funds 
20/10/2018 3
€50 million spent by the company organizing the 2024 Budapest Olympic bid that never happened
Although the required number of signatures had been collected to hold a referendum about the Olympic bid, in March 2017...
chinese-hungarian relations 
18/10/2018 3
Orban's love affair with China - great expectations with few results
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban boasts about his good relationship with China and the success that the policy of Eastern...
Friends of Orban 
12/10/2018 3
Adnan Polat's son, Kerim, gets key roles in his father's solar panel business in Hungary
Turkish businessman Adnan Polat has been Viktor Orban’s friend since 2005 when the two met at the Champion’s League final...
Propaganda machine 
05/10/2018 4
Hungarian government allocated €18.2 million of taxpayers money on advertising campaign against Sargentini, Soros, and Verhofstadt
On the day of the vote on the Sargentini report in the European Parliament, the Hungarian Cabinet Office of the...
Orban's media empire 
29/09/2018 7
A case study in Hungarian propaganda: this is how the pro-government media works if something awkward is revealed about PM Orban
The pro-government media empire in Hungary has a special characteristic: when there is a very important message to push, they...
freedom of the press 
28/09/2018 4
Hungarian PM Orban threatens journalists – if someone hits us, we will respond, he said
Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary, threatened journalists in his regular Friday morning interview at the public service radio channel....