Richest Hungarians Revealed with a Change in First Place Every year, Forbes Hungary publishes its billionaires list, which reveals the richest Hungarians. This year the list had some surprises,... 2022.12.29.
Winners of Controversial Motorway Concession Announced The consortium led by private equity fund Themis, linked to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's childhood friend Lőrinc Mészáros, has been... 2022.05.09.
Two Hungarians on List of Richest People in the World For the 36th consecutive year, Forbes magazine has published its annual survey of the world's dollar billionaires for 2022. There... 2022.04.07.
Orbán’s Election Victory Significantly Raises Share Prices of Fidesz-linked Companies Following Sunday's general election in which Fidesz won a fourth successive supermajority, the forint started a slight strengthening against the... 2022.04.04.
Rosatom Opens Account at Lőrinc Mészáros’ MKB Bank after Sberbank Fall Rosatom Central Europe Kft., the Hungarian subsidiary of Russia's Rosatom which is in charge of building Paks 2, opened an... 2022.04.02.
Hungary’s Richest Man Opens Two of His Hotels for Ukrainian Refugees Two companies owned by Lőrinc Mészáros, Hungary's richest businessman - who is also PM Viktor Orbán's childhood friend - are... 2022.03.11.
Lőrinc Mészáros-linked MKB Bank Loan Financed Marine le Pen’s Campaign In our article published on March 9, 2022, we mistakenly stated that Mr. László Szíjj was still a co-owner of... 2022.03.09.
Most Influential Hungarian Women: Fidesz Dominates Top 10 Fidesz's candidate for president, the Prime Minister's daughter and a pro-Fidesz historian are Hungary's most influential women in public life, according... 2022.03.09.
There’s a Village in Hungary with a Capital Income of HUF 7 Million Per Resident The 164 residents of the tiny village of Somogycsicsó in southwestern Hungary earned the highest capital income last year with... 2022.02.21.
Mixed Reactions to Employers’ Right to Make Vaccination Compulsory The government provided employers with the right to make covid inoculation obligatory for their employees. Some reactions include welcoming the... 2021.10.29.
Gov’t Says Experts Wrong, Budapest’s South Circle Railway Not Overpriced After experts labeled Budapest's partly-new South Circle railway project, to be built by Orbán-ally businessman Lőrinc Mészáros, "staggeringly overpriced," the... 2021.10.14.
Budapest’s New South Circle Railway Highly Overpriced, Experts Say The soon-to-be-built South Circle Railway project, to be realized by one of Orbán-ally businessmen Lőrinc Mészáros's companies, may be highly... 2021.09.27.
Investigative Photojournalist Also Monitored by Pegasus Spyware Photojournalist Dániel Németh was monitored by Pegasus spy software, investigate site Direkt36 reports. Németh has been documenting the foreign luxury... 2021.09.22.
Motorway Concession: A Good Deal or Another State Asset Sell-off? Just less than year before the elections, the Fidesz-led government is moving to introduce concession on Hungary's motorway network for... 2021.07.01.
Gyurcsány Responds to Orbán’s List of ‘Greatest Threats to Hungary’ That Includes His Name Prime Minister Viktor Orbán listed the three greatest threats Hungary currently faces at the meeting of the ruling parties' parliamentary groups... 2021.06.19.
Lőrinc Mészáros Declared Richest Hungarian Generating Harsh Reaction from Opposition Lőrinc Mészáros has become the richest Hungarian, according to the latest, top 100 list put together regularly by a team... 2021.06.10.
Government Confirms Intent to Purchase Budapest Airport Following years of clear intentions and background speculations, recently, the Hungarian government has openly stepped up once again and made... 2021.06.08.
Police Show Up After Jobbik President Jakab’s Early Morning Demonstration at Parliament Police turned up at dawn at the embankment just under the Parliament after Jobbik leader Péter Jakab's newest demonstration. The... 2021.05.19.
Rainbow Families: Hertha Sacks Coach Petry for Criticizing Goalie Gulácsi German Bundesliga team Hertha BSC parted ways with its Hungarian goalkeeping coach after he voiced his immigration-critical stance and criticized... 2021.04.07.
Hungary’s Baths and Hotels Willing to Reopen Despite Third Wave The third wave of the coronavirus is rampaging through Hungary, yet hotels and wellness spas are already planning their reopening... 2021.02.23.
Fidesz-led Municipalities Received 500x More Tourism Support Than Opposition-led Ones Ruling Fidesz-KDNP-led municipalities have gotten some 470 times more money than opposition-led ones from last (coronavirus-hit) year's tourism supports, economic... 2021.02.22.