We promote transparency and accountability and fight corruption in Hungary.
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📢 The October 2026 edition of Assessment of Hungary’s compliance with conditions to access European Union funds is now available!
📲 To access the joint report by Hungarian CSOs, please visit @Transparency_HU's website: transparency.hu/en/news/hun-…
📢 We have extended the deadline!
⚡Transparency International Hungary (@Transparency_HU) is recruiting a full-time Senior Lawyer!
⌛ Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 30th of October 2026.
👉 For more info, please visit: transparency.hu/hirek/ti-hun…
Lőrinc Mészáros's company used the money got by winning public procurements to fund a private company that worked to keep Fidesz in power by spreading propaganda, told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @direkt36. “It’s a vicious cycle,” he added.
icij.org/news/2026/10/how-hu…
Certain sectors of the economy were practically in the
hands of companies aligned with the Orbán regime,” told @jozsef_martin, ED of the @Transparency_HU to @lemondefr. He believes that restoring competition could take up years in #Hungary.
More:
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Cronies of NER, like the childhood friend of Viktor Orbán, got rich through overpriced public tenders, told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @Verkkouutiset. During the rule of Orbán’s regime, corruption was a feature of the system, he added
More: verkkouutiset.fi/a/viktor-or…
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🇫🇷🇭🇺 A Magyarországi Francia Nagykövetség ismét támogatja a @Transparency_HU „Mentor-Mentee” programját, összhangban Franciaország szilárd elhivatottságával a szabad, független, pluralista és megbízható tájékoztatás mellett, amely a demokrácia életképességének sarokköve.
🤝 Egy olyan világban, ahol a dezinformáció egyre nagyobb teret nyer, és ahol az újságírói szakma szabadsága túl gyakran kerül veszélybe, elengedhetetlen az újságírók egy új generációjának képzése.
👏 Büszkék vagyunk arra, hogy a Francia Intézetben megrendezett „Dezinformáció elleni hetek” után most az új mentoráltakat támogathatjuk, akik egy az igazság és az igazságosság mellett elkötelezett közösség tagjaivá válnak. Alig várjuk, hogy elolvashassuk riportjaikat, olyan mentorok irányítása alatt, akik átadják nekik oknyomozói újságírói tapasztalataikat!
@FinEmbBudapest @NorwayinHungary @ukinhungary @24ponthu @MagyarHang
Our mentor-mentee program for investigative journalism has been launched for the 14th time!
We are grateful for the generous support of the joining embassies, and wishing a work full of excitement for the participataing mentors and mentees!
Join the 31st Budapest Pride March, and find us on the final spot of the event, at the Civil Village!
More info on the route and more:
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Corrupt Square, @Transparency_HU's unique, AR-based exhibition on the systematic corruption of the Orbán-regime has won 4 awards on one of Hungary's oldest and most noble competition Hipnózis!
We are delighted that we had the chance to work together w/ Publicis Group Hungary!
Could a captured state have been recovered after the fall of the Orbán-regime?
Participants of the upcoming roundtable, including @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU, will be discussing this matter on 27/05/2026, starting at 1:00 PM BST.
Register: giace.org/event/how-to-recov…
Restoring the #ruleoflaw and #judicialindependence would be “the initial and most essential step” toward ensuring past abuses will be prosecuted, told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @AP.
Get the full story here:
apnews.com/article/hungary-m…
„If the independence of the judiciary is re-established, many of Orbán’s government stakeholders, including some ministers, could find themselves in court.” – said @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to the German public service media, #ARD.
More:
tagesschau.de/video/video-15…
The tobacco shops are just one and a first example of how Orbán, over the course of his 16-year rule, rewired Hungary’s economy, turning it into a giant patronage machine, told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @business.
Get the full story here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The optimal approach would be to repeal the chain of 2021 acts creating entities like MCC, told Miklós Ligeti, legal director of @Transparency_HU to @BalkanInsight. “No rule of law problem arises if we accept that these entities are not private law foundations in the true sense.”
‘Mathias Corvinus Collegium has offered its co-operation to the new government, but it’s unlikely to be accepted.’
—My latest for @Rept_Democracy /@BalkanInsight quoting @VeghZsuzsanna @MSarkadiNagy +@Transparency_HU
balkaninsight.com/2026/05/06…
„Both criminal procedures and asset recovery are needed to clean up the mess caused by the Orbán regime” – told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU in a longdread interview to the biggest Polish daily newspaper, @GazetaStoleczna.
Read more:
wyborcza.pl/7,75399,32745117…
In #Hungary, instead of the oligarchs bought themselves into power, politics captured the state and then found oligarchs to carry out its will, told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @nytimes.
Get the full story here: nytimes.com/2026/04/10/world…
#CorruptSquare, a virtual exhibition has opened in one of Budapest’s best-known public spaces, Kossuth Square, right in front of the Hungarian Parliament. The exhibition by @Transparency_HU commemorates the most iconic corruption cases of recent years.
transparency.hu/en/news/corr…
“4iG is a textbook example of Hungary’s state-linked economic model,” told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @business. “Companies succeed not primarily through competition, but through access to state funding and support.” - he added.
More:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Hungarian prime minister is clearly the mastermind behind this kleptocratic system, told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @Lesjoursfr. “Corruption has become systemic, benefiting those who have proven their loyalty” - he added.
lesjours.fr/obsessions/vikto…
“The EU wants to put an end to Orbán's corrupt system, but it's already too late, and it can't be done without a change in power in Hungary” – told @jozsef_martin, ED of @Transparency_HU to @elindepcom.
Get the full story here:
elindependiente.com/internac…
