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
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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…
A Communist Show Trial: How Dániel Bánffy Became a War Criminal
Romanian State to hang on tooth and nail to Bánffy forests: it relitigates what it had given back 12 years ago. The renationalisation is based on a genuine communist show trial…
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…
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…
Galambfalva: as the municipality develops, the Roma ghetto is expanding
The interconnected web of political interest and inability ties the Hungarian population of Galambfalva to the Roma living in the settlement in its vicinity. Two thirds of the Roma population of…
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…
Where does the money allocated to the Hungarian community living in Transylvania go?
Since 2009, DAHR as the sole manager of the subvention targeting the Hungarian community living in Transylvania, received a total amount of 28 million euros. A smaller share is destined for…