Inside the rise of Viktor Orbán’s unexpected challenger
Once an Orbán loyalist, in 2023 Péter Magyar was excluded from an exclusive pro-government club, a move that marked his growing alienation from Fidesz’s inn...
Orbán and the economy, part 3: A tool for staying in power
Although Viktor Orbán has amassed considerable knowledge of economics over the decades, he sometimes has serious shortcomings. And he has now become the prime ...
Orbán and the economy, part two: Márton Nagy, the prime minister’s new economic magician
The inside story of the quick rise of Márton Nagy, the minister in charge of rebooting the economy. He keeps making enemies both inside and outside the governm...
Orbán and the economy, part one: The rise and fall of György Matolcsy
In recent years, the Hungarian economy, which has been dominated for nearly a decade and a half by prime minister Viktor Orbán and a few of his confidants, has...
Orbán blocked the idea that could have pushed out Russia from Hungary’s nuclear plant expansion
Last year, there were talks in government circles about starting building a third nuclear power plant with the French, which could have led to the insignificanc...
The government official asked for two million forints instead of sausages – here is the indictment on the theft of EU money involving ministries
Direkt36 has also obtained the indictment, which reveals a series of fraudulent practices involving EU tenders. According to the document, Tamás K. and his acc...
How Viktor Orbán tried to extinguish the pedophile pardon scandal that shook his government
The government initially hoped that they could get away with it, but when they saw the internal polls, they knew they had to act. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán p...
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 increase US influ...
The secret history of Viktor Orbán’s favorite company
A Direkt36 investigation has revealed that the Hungarian Prime Minister personally got involved in an acquisition of 4iG, a Hungarian telecommunications company...
Inside the crisis of the Hungarian opposition
The opposition parties that suffered a crushing defeat in 2022 are busy gaining positions in favor of each other instead of weakening the power of Fidesz....