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…

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…

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…

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…