@piotrserafin.bsky.social said in the EP CONT/BUDG meeting that audit and control mechanisms and procurement rules will be part of the evaluation of the Hungarian safe plan
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EU correspondent @ Népszava Journalist for independent Hungarian media + freelance researcher Hungary/ Central and Eastern Europe/ AML/Sanctions/ EU/ Illicit Financial Flows/ From Budapest, yet an idealist
@piotrserafin.bsky.social said in the EP CONT/BUDG meeting that audit and control mechanisms and procurement rules will be part of the evaluation of the Hungarian safe plan
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Tisza party announced their future minister of foreign affairs:
Anita Orbán (yes, common name).After her PhD in the US she wrote a book (2008) "Power, Energy& the New Russian Imperialism". Worked (early 2010s) to diversify energy supply in gov, then corporate leadership jobs
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Corrosive capital is not business as usual, but not corruption either. Explains @tenaprelec.bsky.social to Népszava. @carnegieeurope.bsky.social study examines some typical projects from the Western Balkans nepszava.hu/3308849_korr...
21.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hungarian opposition party is going against the EPP majority, Péter Magyar is against Mercosur, he says to protect farmers
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Péter Magyar, the leader of HU opposition (in EPP) says that Tisza party is against the Mercosur deal, they will vote against the EPP group line. Magyar is having a press conference together with farmers in Strasbourg, some of them are Tisza candidates for April elections
20.01.2026 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Orbán talks about the reparation loan as if it was already off the table. The reality is different.
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Due to the N+2 rule HU is losing around €1bn from the frozen cohesion funds at the end of the year, as the gov has failed to address the EC's concerns nepszava.hu/3305205_400-...
16.12.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HU rewrites its RRF plan. €4bn would go for capital injection to the HU Development Bank. Education, transport, energy& social projects would be scrapped. However, HU first needs to fulfil the anti-corruption/transparency super milestones & now there's no change in sight
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Orbán: we will not implement the migration pact
@magnusbrunner.bsky.social: Yes, you will
I also talked to @cartasilvia.bsky.social of @picumofficial.bsky.social about the new EU rules on migration and what it means
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The @ec.europa.eu presented its 2 plans to support Ukraine. Opening up the MFF is impossible due to Hungary, and the reparation loan guarantees don't seem to satisfy Belgium's concerns
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SAFE loan pre-financing and project announcements can come in Q1 2026, ahead of Hungary's election. HU is eligible for up to €16.2bn with almost no strings attached. No super milestones, just common procurement rules
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The EP adopted its report on the rule of law situation in Hungary. @tinekestrik.bsky.social rapporteur said that Council inaction emboldening autocrats
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CEO of @anticorruption.bsky.social @mairamartini.bsky.social told me how to improve incentives for law enforcement and how shrinking civic space threatens anti-corruption work. Read my interview 👇
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EPP is stronger than ever. The biggest group under the leadership of Manfred Weber is ready to break taboos and amend legislation together with the far-right #omnibus
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Katalin Cseh's party, Momentum expelled her immediately and demanded that she give back her parliamentary mandate, as Momentum already decided that they'd not run on the 2026 elections to give a chance for Tisza
12.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Former Renew MEP @katalincseh.bsky.social announced that she joins a new political movement "Humanists", which is founded by one of the leaders of Párbeszéd. That Green party has never polled above 1%, even though Budapest mayor comes from them.
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Reparation loan is still the most likely way to support Ukraine. As a side effect, Orbán might lose one of his options to blackmail the EU
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Hungarian and Spanish fighter jets are policing the Baltic airspace. They have to fly close to armed Russian planes too. I report from the NATO airbase next to Šiauliai, Lithuania
#gripen #eurofighter #NATO #airforce
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The European Commission presented the new LGBTQI+ strategy. It remains unclear what will happen if a MS completely ignores it (looking at you, Hungary).
@remybonny.bsky.social said "it's too little too late"
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My guest post on Chasing the Rainbow about Pécs Pride. Another banned Hungarian pride event, another record turnout
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Ilaria Salis's immunity was not waived. It was decided by ONE vote. She's the Italian MEP who was in a Hungarian prison before elected as to the EP, she was charged with three counts of attempted battery causing life-threatening bodily harm in the framework of a criminal organisation
07.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HU will receive €163.5M from the frozen funds within 60 days. The cohesion mid-term review allowed them to regroup €545M to STEP priorities. While they are officially frozen, there is a 30% pre-financing in that envelope.
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HU can regroup €550m cohesion funds to new priorities, but there is still no cash to Hungary until they address the issues of freedom of universities. DG Regio said answering @danielfreund.bsky.social's question in the EP nepszava.hu/3295754_orba...
25.09.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dóra Dávid, Tisza/EPP MEP said that protecting our digital laws is the question of sovereignty. My background piece about DMA/DSA and Trump
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JURI Committee doesn't support lifting the immunity of Ilaria Salis & Péter Magyar & Klára Dobrev
In case of Salis, it's against the suggestion of the rapporteur.
Plenary votes in early October
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The European Commission denied that they would buy Orbán's vote by unfreezing some money. Spox said that whether the Commission approves HU's request to regroup a few hundred million € in the framework of cohesion mid-term review will be based on "objective criteria" nepszava.hu/3295372_euro...
23.09.2025 10:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Commission presented its proposal for the 19th sanctions package against Russia. Now it's time for the MSs to adopt the proposal which includes LNG ban as of January 2027, listing of banks, refineries & vessels in RU, China and beyond nepszava.hu/3295093_oros...
19.09.2025 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Swedish EU minister: Viktor Orbán's video is a desperate distraction.
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EU Minister Bóka said that Hungary won't support any sanctions against Israel. HU wants to "maintain a constructive dialogue." "otherwise our word will not count"- he explained to Hungarian press after the General Affairs Council
16.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Many are fed up with Serbia's authoritarian leadership in the EU, but without the EPP moving, nothing will change. I talked to @dobricaveselinovic.bsky.social and Ivan Djurić from @crta.bsky.social about Serbia- EU relations
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