Although the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents has been in force since December 2020, the Hungarian government has not carried out any harmonization of laws, except to secretly put the president of the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of…
Tromsø in Hungary - This is how we implement treaties
Jogi Munkacsoport // 2022.05.05.
Címkék: english
Election Campaign: the Hungarian State in Action
Jogi Munkacsoport // 2022.04.19.
Címkék: english
After a 50-day official campaign period, general elections were held in Hungary on 3 April, and FIDESZ, in government since 2010, won a supermajority for the fourth time. The election results are hardly surprising given the government's gravity in campaigning. K-Monitor's analysis considers the…
Who Works for the Government in Hungary? Dunno since 2019
Jogi Munkacsoport // 2022.04.11.
Címkék: english
Since 2019, government bodies in Hungary no longer have to publish who they have appointed or who they have given titles, awards to. K-Monitor has turned to the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH) to address the hollowing nature of transparency in public…
Orban’s Fidesz to overspend in Hungary’s election campaign
tangentopoli // 2022.03.31.
Címkék: english
Elections are held this Sunday in Hungary. Pro-government forces have spent almost eight times as much on billboard advertisement in the ongoing Hungarian election campaign than the opposition. Fidesz itself seems to have violated the spending cap of HUF 1.177 bn, just with its billboard ads worth…
Fidesz Campaigns in Schools may be funded by EU money
tangentopoli // 2022.03.11.
Címkék: english
A few days after the campaign period for the general elections in April officially began, Viktor Orban's Fidesz party kicked down the doors of public schools and started handing out laptops to be funded by the EU.
Despite the fact that it has been known since the outbreak of the pandemic that the…
Hungary’s State of Corruption Heading Towards Elections
tangentopoli // 2022.02.21.
Címkék: english
After 12 years of authoritarian rule, Orbán’s System of National Cooperation has reached its final shape. In 2021 government party Fidesz did its best to cement its positions in oversight institutions and markets it hijacked. Without being really aware of it, Hungarians donated national assets worth…
EU’s Financial Interests Safeguarded
tangentopoli // 2022.02.18.
Címkék: english EU conditionality
Or not? The Court of Justice of the European Union has given green light to the Commission’s Rule of Law conditionality mechanism: the misuse of EU funds could soon have more severe consequences. The Luxembourg court's ruling comes after Hungary, criticized for systemic corruption, and Poland, whose…
There is nothing mysterious about public budgets: it's our money!
MerényiM // 2021.12.07.
Címkék: english
Imagine a country where citizens and public bodies come together to solve the most important issues they face; and allocate public funds accordingly. Where the decision-making process is transparent and accountable, and where you have a real say in the policies and services that shape your life. In…
New Public Interest Trusts: K-Monitor to File Amicus to Constitutional Court
MerényiM // 2021.11.23.
Címkék: english kekva
Constitutional concerns regarding academic freedom and the newly set up public interest trusts (PITs) are well known to the international community as the forced reorganisation of the University of Theatre and Film Arts has sparked criticism around the world.
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Hungary's bluffed solutions to improve its funds management system
orsivin // 2021.11.17.
Címkék: english RRF
The European Commission has not yet approved the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) submitted by the Hungarian Government in mid-May. This would be the condition for Hungary to have access to the billions disbursed by the EU to address the effects of the COVID pandemic. The protracted decision…