K-Monitor is happy to announce that our NER Hotel database is now available in English, too. NER Hotel is a map-based website that aims to make the Hungarian tourism sector more transparent by uncovering the real owners of restaurants, hotels, and other leisure establishments. It is designed to help…

Promises and half-hearted solutions have failed to convince the European Commission, and so Hungary has still no access to vital EU funds. According to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, K-Monitor and Transparency International (TI) Hungary, the Hungarian government must seize the last opportunity to…

A number of international outlets reported that the EU Commission will likely maintain its proposal to freeze EU cohesion funds for Hungary. At the same time it is also expected that the EU will approve Hungary's recovery plan, still not available publicly, while connecting payments to strict…

With the 19 November deadline given to the Hungarian government to enact the remedial measures it committed to in the framework of the conditionality mechanism nearing, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, K-Monitor and Transparency International Hungary prepared a new joint analysis on the…

In our publications about the Hungarian Government’s recent steps against corruption, we already referred to the fact that the 17 measures agreed on by the European Commission (EC) and the Hungarian Government neither cover several corruption related issues raised earlier by the EC when preparing…

On 18 October 2022 the Hungarian government submitted a bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act. The amendment is part of legislation done in order to fulfill proposed remedial measures under the financial conditionality mechanism and aims to shorten FOI lawsuits and amend rules on proactive…

In the wake of the conditionality mechanism, the Hungarian Government has committed to implement major reforms in the Hungarian Public Procurement System in order to reduce the number of single-bid procedures and eliminate systematic deficiencies – however, the ultimate goal is to simply gain access…

Only a post shared by Justice Minister Judit Varga on Facebook has revealed that the Hungarian government had sent a last-minute letter of response to Brussels on how to deal with rule of law concerns raised by the European Commission (EC).  

Although NGOs have been demanding for almost a decade, the government has only now taken steps to allow more effective prosecution of corruption - in the hope of receiving money from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund. Soon, anyone who wants to take the role of a prosecutor in a stalled…

Although the Hungarian law on MPs’ asset declaration has long been criticized by many for inefficiency, the Hungarian public has often been left stunned by the wealth of the political elite revealed in asset declarations. Now, Fidesz MPs submitted a bill that plans to disperse the last safeguards…