Péter Magyar, the newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary, announced that his government will no longer fund the conservative event CPAC Hungary, nor the propaganda organ Mathias Corvinus College, according to Radio Târgu Mureș. He stated that the funding of these two entities by the Viktor Orban government could constitute an offense, given that the legislation does not allow the mixing of party funding with state expenditures.
The future Hungarian Prime Minister also said that the funding of the Mathias Corvinus College could be examined by authorities in the future.
A researcher from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Hungary stated in the days leading up to the elections that he had been subjected to extraordinary pressure in the last months of the electoral campaign to write propaganda articles in favor of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party. Read more
“How can it happen that in an organization that self-proclaims to be politically impartial, in the last months of the campaign, pressure was exerted on me from several directions to write propaganda for Fidesz? I am not willing to do this in any form,” stated Zalán Alkonyi, a researcher in the field of Russia and current employee of the institute, referring to the operation of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC).
At the same time, an investigation by the Hungarian portal HVG demonstrated the direct links between Moscow’s influence structures and foreign experts hired by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) – the elite educational hub of Viktor Orbán’s government, with operations also in Romania.
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