Judit Pete took over the business from him, whom we saw leaving Nagy Szilárd's address early in the morning in a Porsche. The office has signed hundred-million contracts with state-owned companies under the supervision of Márton Nagy. The lawyer was nominated as a member of the Public Procurement Council by the minister.

The Hungarian Parliament's group of Hungaro-Russian friendship quietly ceased to exist after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war, as it was not formed again in 2022 at the start of the new parliamentary cycle. However, unlike in the previous cycle, there is now a Hungaro-Ukrainian friendship group chaired by a Fidesz politician banned from Ukraine. But not even the inaugural meeting has been convened as of yet.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' non-refundable support exceeding a quarter of a billion forints ended up with one of the largest ‘invoice factories’ – companies guilty of corporate fraud through issuing false invoices – of recent years.

The foundation led by the former president of the National Office of Education and former deputy CEO of the Hungarian Tourism Agency seems unwilling to uncover any details.

Since its establishment, the Hungarian Garden Heritage Foundation (MKA) has received more than one billion HUF in state support.

In 2021, the District II municipality put up a unique property on Józsefhegyi Street for auction at a starting price of 718.5 million HUF. In the first round of bidding, a company won with an offer of 1.5 billion HUF but eventually withdrew its intention to sign the contract, thereby forfeiting the already paid 71.85 million Forints in earnest money. In the second round, Antal Rogán's circle entered the picture and acquired the property with an offer 600 million HUF lower than that of the first round’s victor. Mayor Gergely Őrsi finds the circumstances rather strange but adds that selling municipal property cannot be more transparent than this.

A Moscow-based research organisation, possessing privileges and a history somewhat resembling those of the so-called “spy bank”, seems to have restarted its activities and opened a trade representation in the Hungarian capital in 2022. The true motives behind the decision remain a mystery as the organisation’s partners either remain silent or deny involvement.

Will either side manage to break through the frozen front line? How effective are the sanctions? Is the war in Ukraine just one front in the West's geopolitical struggle? Could Orbán's anti-sanctions policy gain a majority in Europe?

One of Europe’s most renowned experts on Russia, Mark Galeotti on Russia’s war on Ukraine and the truthfulness of various statements issued by Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin.

Information has come to light that a confidant of the former president of the Hungarian Courts’ Executive Faculty, György Schadl, documented all money transactions in Excel spreadsheets named “household fund” and “Monika’s balance,” including the payment of bribes to former State Secretary Pál Völner. Based on an indictment obtained by 24.hu, the Prosecutor's Office has reached an agreement with Schadl’s associate, whose 90-page witness testimony gives the accused plenty to worry about.

24.hu has mapped out the visible assets of Philip Rákay's real estate empire: an industrial area half the size of Margaret Island in Rácalmás, a restaurant for sale for more than HUF 1.5 bn in the Káli basin, an iconic villa in the Balaton Highlands, and a killer deal on Széchenyi Hill.

Péter Márki-Zay's movement received close to two billion forints during recent months, but it's unclear who the donors exactly are. And that's not the only element that's unknown in the opposition's recent election campaign.

After some lessons of disrupted flights and thousands of stranded passengers, Wizz Air cancelled every 20th flight from their summer schedule so they can surely operate the rest, says Robert Carey, President of Wizz Air in his interview with 24.hu. Mr. Carey claims they were the most prepared for the massive waves of Europeans wanting to travel again, calls the “extra profit tax” on flights departing from Budapest “disappointing” but is otherwise optimistic. The president argues low-cost carries will come out strengthened from the downturn, because people don’t give up traveling but say they’ll do 5 days instead of a week or try to spend less.

Gender has been the subject of much discussion in Hungary in recent years, and Hungarian citizens were even asked about gender reassignment in the referendum held on 3 April. Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, the new German coalition government came up with a bill that would allow even people under 14 to legally change their sex. How should we approach these issues if we are not satisfied with the simplistic language of domestic government propaganda, and what is gender today? What does the researcher say, who has her criticisms of the trans movement, but also firmly rejects the politics of stigmatisation?

Due to the tight Hungarian labor market, wages are set to increase by 15-20 percent, which will lead to stable inflation of 10-15 percent — a possible dire economic portrait for Hungary, according to Viktor Zsiday in an interview with 24.hu. We also queried him about the government's management of the utility cuts and the economic fallout, inflation, price caps and Hungary's prospects for growth.

24.hu put the question to energy expert Attila Holoda whether or not there will be natural gas available this winter in Hungary, asking if there’s any justification for panic. According to the former deputy state secretary of a previous Orbán government, the situation is not good – but it’s not tragic either.