“In Poland, the party decides what I am allowed to watch”
In August 2021, Poland enacted a controversial media law. This so-called “Lex TVN” — which targets one specific private TV channel — is one more blow in the ruling party’s assault on the free press.
The specter of authoritarian regimes is haunting the EU

For two years Political Capital, a Hungarian think tank, conducted with partners a research project on authoritarian influence in the European Union, and particularly in the European Parliament.
Orban’s Hungary seen through the lens of a Polish photographer

An interview with Michał Adamski, the author of the book The Two Tailed Dog, a photographic story about a country grappling with tensions and the rule of Viktor Orban.
Travel agency “Eye of Sauron”

An organisation with links to Russian influence operations organised a trip featuring Hungarian Jobbik politicians and Polish journalists, among others.
Trying to muzzle Hungary’s top news site was a bad idea

One year after the pro-governmental takeover of the top Hungarian news site, Index.hu, its former staff members are thriving.
Polish independent journalists in defence of the TVN network

If the government puts a gag order on a broadcaster simply because it finds its reporting unfavourable, the same fate will await the rest of the free media in Poland.
Szabolcs Panyi: I was hacked with Pegasus software

Orban put me at the same level as a dangerous criminal – says Panyi, a surveilled Hungarian journalist and a member of the international team revealing Pegasus Project.
How the Hungarian government invests billions in Zakarpattia

Viktor Orbán’s government invests billions of forints every year in Hungarian communities in neighboring countries, including in Ukraine.