After the European Commission launched the conditionality procedure based on Regulation 2020/2092 and the European Council decided to suspend EU funds to Hungary in December 2023, the Hungarian Government has started to submit laws to address EU concerns regarding breaches of the principles of the…

K-Monitor as one of nine Hungarian NGOs has submitted a report on rule of law in Hungary to the European Commission. The report assesses the rule of law situation in Hungary and draws attention to problems in the justice, the anti-corruption framework, the media and other rule of law related…

K-Monitor, together with Amnesty International Hungary, Eötvös Károly Institute, the Hungarian CivilLiberties Union, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and Transparency International Hungary has re-assessed the compliance with the 17 conditionality measures, the 27 super milestones under the RRP, and…

In the second half of 2022, Hungary made a number of commitments, partly due to the launch of the conditionality mechanism and partly to the adoption of Hungary's RRF plan. This is the largest and most comprehensive anti-corruption and rule of law package in the last ten years, providing the…

In 2021, K-Monitor turned to the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information because newly established public interest trusts (PITs) did not comply with statutory rules on proactive disclosure. This year, K-Monitor also reported the failure of a municipality, already relying on…

In November 2022 we applied to the Anti-Corruption Task Force, which was founded by the Hungarian government under pressure from the EU Commission. Since then, we regularly get the question why we have joined the group.  

The collaborative research project of K-Monitor (Hungary), Oživení (Czechia), Sieć Obywatelska Watchdog Polska (Poland) and Funky Citizens (Romania) started in July 2021 and has concluded now after 2 years of work. The main objective of the project was to better understand how the Covid-19 pandemic…

As a Budapest-based public fund watchdog, K-Monitor has been monitoring the use of public funds, including political advertising, in Hungary for seventeen years. In the context of project ‘Making political finance and advertisement in the Visegrad region more transparent,’ K-Monitor together with TI…

Since the late 2010s, it has become a recurring criticism in Hungarian Country Reports and Rule of Law reports that the government does not have adequate and effective structures for social dialogue and stakeholder engagement. Documents of strategic importance have not been shared with the public…

Something has changed since Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán was photographed in a restaurant in Rome with his wife and son. Viktor Orbán has since paid more than HUF 2 million (appr. €5,800, exchange rates as of 27 April) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for, the Ministry claims for the travels of his…