Record breaking funding from the Hungarian government: the Association for Transylvanian Media Space received 20 million EUR over a few years. However their reports are vague when it comes to audiences…
Zoltán Sipos
Author: Sipos Zoltán
Sipos Zoltán (1980) Kolozsváron él, az Átlátszó Erdély tényfeltáró civil szervezet alapítója. 2001-től 2014-ig az erdélyi Transindex.ro internetes portálnál dolgozott, különféle beosztásokban. Filozófiát, majd szociológia mesterit végzett a Babeș-Bolyai Tudományegyetemen.
Témái: erdélyi pártok finanszírozása, magyarországi közéleti személyiségek határon át nyúló üzleti érdekeltségei, környezetszennyező nagyberuházások Erdélyben, erdélyi politikai és üzleti összefonódások, erdélyi nemzeti radikális csoportok.
How to Bridge Divides in Small Local Communities? Some Lessons We Learned at Átlátszó Erdély
Investigating hyperlocal topics that affect everyone in a community is a good way to overcome biases and leave deep divisions behind. (more…)
Marriage of convenience sweetened with millions – how Fidesz persuaded the largest Hungarian party in Transylvania
At first Fidesz attempted to bleed to death the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Transylvania (DAHR). After they realized that DAHR cannot be replaced, they forced the party into a loyalty…
Anti-Migrants Hate Speech at Ditrău / Gyergyóditró to Hide a Case of Classic Exploitation
Old conflicts surfaced at the village council as people of Ditrău / Gyergyóditró debated the conflict surrounding the employment of two bakers from Sri Lanka. Police wearing high visibility vests were…
Media funding record in Transylvania: a network of businesses, covered in mist
The Hungarian government granted a support of 6 million EUR to a Transylvanian NGO following a previous grant of 4,5 million EUR. How does the current readjustment and upgrade of Hungarian…
The Hungarian community in Transylvania, flooded with financial support from Hungary. These are the biggest winners
Grants with a total worth of 47 billion forints have been awarded to organizations from Transylvania by the Bethlen Gabor Fund in 2018. The most consistent financial support went to the…
Will the Hungarian government bring Sekler football to success?
The Football Academy of Seklerland is the first big investment of the Football Academy Network funded by the Hungarian government, which is planning to build establishments in the neighboring countries bearing…
Former press aide opens chic restaurant with help from a foundation controlled by her husband
Hajnalka Debreczeni, a former press aide of DAHR president Hunor Kelemen opened a fashionable restaurant in the center of Cluj-Napoca. Her business was greatly helped by her husband, Zoltán Nagy, chief…
Fidesz has won over the Hungarian online press in Transylvania
Hungarian public money is increasingly present and government is gaining influence on the Hungarian media in Transylvania. In 2016 the income of the biggest news websites was coming from public money…
Informant or not? György Frunda's Securitate files published
The long-time member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe asked for the help of the communist secret services at least once. However, the Securitate, hoping for a ‘compensation’,…