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
Category: English
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…
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…
Schweighofer starts operating its pine processing plant without permit
Logs, wood waste and planks cut into a given size can be found on the property of the factory, even though the Austrian investor hasn’t even required the issuance of the…
We are launching the investigative journalism blog of Transylvania
– What do you like writing about the most? – About what is being left out of the news. – Well, that is awesome, indeed. But beware, if you have a…