There was “strong suspicion” that “MEPs of the dollar left-wing”, including Klára Dobrev and István Ujhelyi possibly maintained links with the primary defendant in the scandal.
More than half of Hungarians (54 percent) believe the European Union leadership to be corrupt, with even a third of government-critics (31 percent) holding the same view.
Klára Dobrev toured Berlin on Friday, discussing corruption in Hungary with, ironically, the German chancellor who’s up to his neck in Germany’s biggest corruption scandal to date.
What’s particularly conspicuous in this latest article is the blatant bias in the reporting.
The foreign minister slammed Biden for recently making “totally unjust and unworthy” accusations against Hungary and Poland at a campaign event.
Make no mistake: Transparency International is part of George Soros’s wider network of “independent” NGOs. Like its affiliate in Hungary, this group receives ample funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundation, and it should surprise no one that that fact is reflected in the group’s biased analysis of Hungary.
Hungary has become a popular topic among some in Finland recently. In an opinion piece published online in Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat, the former Finnish ambassador to Budapest, Petri Tuomi-Nikula, writes that “Hungary is one of the most corrupt countries in the European Union”.
Sándor Pintér welcomed significant progress in fighting corruption, adding that automated bureaucratic processes were of great help in “reducing the chance of temptations”
The Hungarian government believes that this may be the most significant abuse of EU funds since the end of communism
OLAF had reviewed 400 billion HUF in concluded Metro 4 contracts and found inconsistencies in 272 billion HUF (880M EUR) worth of work. There were indications of five possible crimes at a total value of 166 billion HUF (540M EUR), and the EU is asking for the repayment of 59 billion HUF (192M EUR)
The EU has determined major discrepancies with relation to eight contracts concluded between 2003 and 2009. This is the second largest sum that Hungary must repay following the corruption scandal relating to the Metro 4 project
Gábor Demszky's lawyer said the former mayor would cooperate with any investigation and has nothing to hide
Hungary could be fined almost 77 billion HUF, or 250 million euros, for violations based on the OLAF report