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City Park construction project cost €367 million already; final price tag may...

The City Park (Városliget), in the heart of Budapest, is under reconstruction. We summarized how much the construction works have cost so far: the company responsible for the project, Városliget Zrt.,...

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Landowners kept in the dark about new Hungarian MotoGP track to be built on...

After the failed Balatonring project in Sávoly more than ten years ago, the current government is once again trying to build a MotoGP track in Hungary. The 500-hectare circuit will cost HUF 65 billion,...

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Hungarikum Park, the HUF 30 billion national “experience center” built from...

​30 billion forints of public money and a lot of imagination was needed to create the Hungarikum Park, a brainchild of Sándor Lezsák, MP (Fidesz), poet and deputy speaker of the National Assembly....

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The Hungarian Pavilion of the 2015 Milan World Expo will be rebuilt from HUF...

The Hungarian Pavilion of the 2015 World Expo, known as the „Shaman drum”, will be rebuilt in Karcag for HUF 3.8 billion. Although last year the city did not have enough money to pay the HUF 2.6...

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Drone video: 2.4 billion HUF international tennis academy near Kisvárda...

We visited the luxury tennis academy near Kisvárda, built with a net cost of HUF 2.4 billion, and financed by a foundation linked to former Development Minister Miklós Seszták. Although the tennis...

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Construction of the planned new Hungarian MotoGP racetrack is behind schedule

The new Hungarian MotoGP track construction on the outskirts of Hajdúnánás will cost more than HUF 60 billion. The construction is not proceeding according to the original plans, although the company...

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Hungarian Tourism Agency secretive about the price tag of the August 20...

Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ) tried to hide how much public money it plans to spend on the programmes for the 20th August celebrations and the fireworks display in Hungary in 2022. The reason given...

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PM Viktor Orbán’s private meeting with Donald Trump cost €141 thousand for...

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán travelled to the United States in early August, where he met former US President Donald Trump and spoke on the stage of CPAC, the annual political conference of...

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New York apartment, luxury fireworks and old friends on the tourist agency’s...

We were curious about the cost of last year’s national celebrations on 20 August. The fireworks and events were organised by the Hungarian Tourist Agency, but the spending was not available on their...

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Taxpayers’ billions wasted by the Food Rescue Centre that does not save food

A net HUF1.8 billion is being spent by the state-run nonprofit company, which is just laying the foundations for its operations nearly two years after the launch. Source

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Szeged paid twenty times more for Sándor Csányi’s land than they did to the...

Industrial land - this is how the Szeged municipality explains why it paid twenty times more per hectare for the land owned by Sándor Csányi. Source

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Atlatszo wins lawsuit against the PM’s Office for the disclosure of a due...

The government-friendly think-thank, Antall József Knowledge Centre spent tens of million of taxpayers money for travel and accomodation for years. Source

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The Integrity Authority filed a criminal complaint about the EU-funded canopy...

Following our story, Transparency International Hungary turned to the Integrity Authority, which now said that it had found serious irregularities in the investigation and had filed a criminal...

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