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A mysterious, cautious source carefully deleting his digital tracks informed the press about mail ballots having been thrown out near Târgu Mureș. The deeper we dug, the fishier the story became. At the end of the campaign for the Hungarian parliamentary elections, in the evening...

All signs indicate that the Hungarian government has assigned the task of collecting the votes in Transylvania to two politically-related organizations: the Eurotrans Foundation established by the DAHR and the Democracy Centres operated by the Hungarian National Council of Transylvania . After several months of...

The online Hungarian daily press from Transylvania covers the preparations for the elections in Hungary in an utterly one-sided manner: while negative news about the Hungarian government are extremely difficult to find, the opposition is either missing, or is only about Gyurcsány. The Hungarian government...

In 2021, the Gábor Bethlen Fund granted a significantly lower amount of funding for Hungarian organizations outside Hungary compared to previous years. Big grants up to billions of HUF are almost missing for Transylvania; real estate investments began earlier will be finalized, but hardly any...

Minorities in Romania fought hard for the right to use their native tongue at the local level, but more than 20 years after the law changed, its implementation is patchy, BIRN and Átlátszó Erdély have found. “Tough” and “brutal” is how Béla Markó recalls his...

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 and circulation, the budgets include six-figure items for “other services”, while the promised innovations...

Investigating hyperlocal topics that affect everyone in a community is a good way to overcome biases and leave deep divisions behind. Why should we care about who is responsible for a back country road built on a huge landslip? Is it newsworthy that the mayor...

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 competition. The once freezing relationship between Fidesz and the DAHR evolved to close cooperation,...

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 standing in front of the Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Culture House of Ditrău on Saturday...

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 from 1952. The People’s Republic of Romania sentenced Dániel Bánffy, then 59, to eight...

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 Sapientia University, the School Foundation, churches and football projects. Last year marked a new...

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 ethnic Hungarians. Up until now the cost of the Sekler Football Academy reached 3.7...

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 of staff of the same Hunor Kelemen, who used money from a public foundation...

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 Galambfalva is preschooler or attends elementary school, often the parents themselves are not older...

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 from Hungary. Even though up to now the Hungarian media in Transylvania was not...