We were the first one to report on the Prime Minister’s trip to a Videoton-Ludogorec Champion’s League game in Bulgaria on July 25. The trip was made on a 60 million dollar business jet, and Orbán’s Press Secretary, Bertalan Havasi asserted that it has not been paid from public funds. In September,…
The Uses and Misuses of Europe's "Strictest" Asset Declaration System
MerényiM // 2018.10.05.
Címkék: english orbán viktor vagyonnyilatkozat
HOTEL OLIGARCH HUNGARY– Know where you spend your money
MerényiM // 2018.08.30.
Címkék: english nerhotel
Summer holiday at Lake Balaton? Charming autumn city break in Budapest? Be aware that the corrupt clientele of the Orbán regime is branching out to tourism. They own hotels and restaurants around the most popular destinations. Don’t feed kleptocrats and don’t support oligarchs usurping both…
The language of the Hungarian Parliament (1990-2017)
tangentopoli // 2017.12.05.
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As part of the 2017 Global Legislative Openness Week K-Monitor did some experimenting with parliamentary data. Background: K-Monitor started to scrape data from the Hungarian Parliament's website to make it processable for researchers and easily searchable for citizens and journalists. The following…
So who blocked our participation at the UN anti-corruption conference in Vienna?
tangentopoli // 2017.11.06.
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Head of government's entourage eyeing agriculture
attilaj // 2017.10.29.
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The positions of the green barons obtained at the turn of the millennium are gradually, hectare by hectare, company by company, taken over by the orange barons in Hungarian agriculture according to the latest agricultural subsidy data processed by K-Monitor. In light of the payments and ownership…
Messed-up tourist attractions from EU money
MerényiM // 2017.09.18.
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A delegation of the EP Committee on Budgetary Control is now visiting Hungary, planning a trip to see the Felcsút miniature railway that has eaten of HUF 600 million. We have to recognize however, that this country can offer a lot more than just a ghost train in the Prime Minister’s village. Have…
The road to Hungary’s withdrawal from OGP
tangentopoli // 2016.12.07.
Címkék: english Hungary OGP OGP16
Hungary announced to leave the Open Government Partnership on Tuesday, only one day before the start of the OGP Summit in Paris. Here is a short summary on how we got there.
Hungary joined OGP in 2012 after local NGOs suggested this during the development of Hungary’s National Anti-Corruption…
Red Flags: This is how public procurers spend your money
k.monitor // 2016.06.06.
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Interactive corruption risk profile for the biggest public spenders
Since its deployment in late 2015, redflags, our online watchdog system has combed through almost 16.000 public procurement documents. The time has come to create the redflag-profiles of those contracting authorities that have…