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…
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.
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’,…
Saxon fortified churches turned into Disney-style kitsch
After these buildings defied the centuries, renovation works funded by the EU caused permanent damage to the A-category historical monuments. (more…)
Azomureş is polluting, the authorities are lost in the haze
The pollution caused by the chemical plant has become a hot topic in Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely). The protests, though, are in vain: the environmental license gives green light to pollution till…
Youth camps in Transylvania funded by the Hungarian radical nationalist Jobbik party
We searched for Transylvanian Hungarian organizations among the recently published list of contracts of Hungarian party foundations. The party foundation of Jobbik has spent 18 million forints (a total of 60.000…