“It’s not Orbán’s system that’s corrupt, it’s the people [themselves],” said Ferenc Bíró, president of the recently established anti-corruption bodies, the Integrity Authority and the…
In a joint report titled “Half-Hearted Promises, Disappointing Delivery,” K-Monitor, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and Transparency International Hungary gave a negative assessment of the anti-corruption…
Four legislative changes required to comply with European Commision conditions to obtain EU funds easily passed Parliament on Tuesday, writes Népszava. But amendments proposed by…
Hungary continues to pose a prominent risk to the European Union through its use of EU funds, according to the newly-published 2021 report by the…
The Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) has assessed Hungary’s performance in its most recent anti-corruption report as “globally unsatisfactory.” The GRECO report examines the…
Katarina Barley, Vice President of the European Parliament, said that the request by the Hungarian state for billions of euros of aid in exchange for…
The European Commission has identified another corruption risk in the Hungarian legal system and has initiated infringement proceedings against Hungary, writes HVG‘s Eurologus. According to…
The Democratic Coalition (DK) has lodged a complaint with the EU’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, over the abuse of funds among staff in the Ministry of…
Along with other EU members, Hungary’s name appears several times in a European Parliament report on combating oligarchic structures and protecting EU funds against fraud.…
The Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP) has gained in notoriety since its official registration as a political party in Hungary in 2014. Co-chaired by Zsuzsanna…
Átlátszó has learned that Hungary had to repay €7.8 million (US $8.9 million or 2.8 billion Ft.) of EU subsidies after irregularities with funds directed…
The European Commission has received a response to the administrative letter it sent to Hungary, Commission Spokesperson Balázs Ujvári confirmed to Népszava. The letter that…
According to Transparency International (TI), Hungary became slightly more corrupt last year than in 2020. The NGO generates corruption scores for every country in the…
The government has postponed completing the anti-corruption measures it had committed to undertaking despite the fact that they weren’t all that ambitious in the first…
Bertalan Tóth, co-chair of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP, pictured), announced on Facebook yesterday that he was taking legal action against OLAF, the European Commission’s…
Fidesz MP György Simonka (pictured), recently caught nodding off during a Parliamentary session in October, has announced that he will not run for re-election in…
Independent MP Ákos Hadházy (pictured) reported a “great disturbance in the force” on social media, referring to his recent correspondence with the Prosecutor General on…
I will give 1 million forints out of my mayoral salary to anyone who can find any trace of abuse of public tenders regarding the…
I will not run in the 2022 Parliamentary elections, and will work to ensure that the candidate selected by the Fidesz executive and membership wins…