Secret documents reveal that Orbán’s people were behind the purchase of one of Europe’s biggest TV channels
Two years ago, a Portuguese businessman with good Hungarian government connections bought the Euronews TV channel. Direkt36, together with Le Monde and Expresso, found out that a large part of the money was provided by a Hungarian state capital fund and a long-standing player in the government propaganda machine. According to leaked internal documents, the investment also had political aims.
How Orbán flooded Central Europe with millions of online ads during election season
While the Hungarian government is very sensitive to its own sovereignty, it has also been running serious advertising campaigns in ...
Orbán’s true reasons for opposing Ukraine’s EU accession revealed
According to information obtained by Direkt36, prime minister Orbán said at a closed-door meeting last spring that Ukraine's accession would ...
Secret documents reveal that Orbán’s people were behind the purchase of one of Europe’s biggest TV channels
Two years ago, a Portuguese businessman with good Hungarian government connections bought the Euronews TV channel. Direkt36, together with Le Monde and Expresso, found out that a large part of the money was provided by a Hungarian state capital fund and a long-standing player in the government propaganda machine. According
Editors stand by the attacked Atlatszo
(Magyar) A nemrég elfogadott szuverenitásvédelmi törvényre hivatkozva indult propagandisztikus támadás az Átlátszó ellen épp a sajtószabadság ünnepéhez közeledve.
“If you are new to this, I’ll see you through it all the way” – The internet is full of ads in Hungarian recruiting sex workers, but authorities see no problem with them
Although encouraging prostitution is a criminal offence In Hungary, the authorities say there is nothing wrong with openly advertising foreign sex work to Hungarian women. Direkt36 looked behind the sex work advertisements as part of an international investigative project.
The “Sovereignty Protection Authority” is harmful and against the rule of law, yet it cannot intimidate independent media
The newly adopted "Sovereignty Protection" law does not expressly regulate the operation of media companies, it is, however, capable of severely restricting the freedom of the press. It is meant to directly undermine democratic debate in general, and should be entirely rejected.
The Ministry of Interior says there is no problem with hospital-acquired infections. However, a leaked document says they know the situation is serious
According to an internal document of the Ministry of Interior leaked to Direkt36, health care authorities are aware of the gravity of problems caused by hospital-acquired infections in Hungary. Miniszter Sándor Pintér is involed in the deliberations, and measures were proposed to address the crisis. However, according to the leaked
Swiss Bank Account Tied to Hungarian Tycoon Provides New Details of Alleged Misuse of Government Funds
In an ongoing criminal case prosecutors claim officials of the Ministry of Agriculture fraudulently disbursed HUF 2,2 billion in 2019. Direkt36 has learned that authorities are now leading inquiries into how half of that money ended up in the Swiss bank account of a Panamanian offshore company tied to the
Minister Csaba Lantos’ former secret business revealed from the Cyprus Confidential project
The energy minister had a company in Cyprus at a time when Viktor Orbán was attacking others for such businesses. Direkt36 obtained the documents of this deal, which involved hundreds of millions of forints, as part of the international investigative project called Cyprus Confidential.
In England, the cleaner is the most important person in the hospital. How did other countries manage to decrease hospital-acquired infections?
While the spread of dangerous hospital-acquired infections is a growing problem in Hungary every year, it is being successfully managed elsewhere. In England, this problem has been solved with a lot of attention and radical transparency. In other words, they have done almost the opposite of what is happening in
“We just spread the bacteria all over the hospital” – Why is the prevalence of dangerous hospital-acquired infections growing in Hungary?
A 35-year-old mother has contracted a serious hospital infection because she was left for hours without changing a contaminated diaper that was put on her after an operation. In the third part of the Semmelweis Project, Direkt36 looks at how hospital conditions can cause such infections.
Until now, it was a secret how Hungarian hospitals were dealing with infections. Direkt36 has created and now publishes their ranking.
For the first time, we publish a ranking of how Hungarian hospitals compare to each other based on the handling of hospital-acquired infections. One of the most problematic institutions itself admits to have conditions typical of the 1950s. Semmelweis Project, Part II.