The Uses and Misuses of Europe's "Strictest" Asset Declaration System

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, watchdog organization and online newspaper Átlátszó had published pictures of Orbán deboarding the luxurious jet.

Hotel Oligarch Hungary - Know where you spend your money

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. 

Letter to European Parliament with Statement on killing of Jan Kuciak

In advance of the parliamentary debate on the killing of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, a statement was signed by 61 civil society organisations from across Europe and elsewhere expressing their concern about the fact that his investigation may have been exposed after he submitted request for information.

The language of the Hungarian Parliament (1990-2017)

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 is an English summary of our preliminary study, more to follow in spring.