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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…