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According to documents obtained by Direkt36, a company owned by Szilárd Benkő, who is close to the Hungarian Foreign Minister, was working on part of the CATL factory in Debrecen. telex.hu/direkt36/2026/…

We spent an entire day on the campaign trail with Péter Magyar. Our crew accompanied the Tisza leader to six campaign events, and rode in the car with him the entire time. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha used the words "disgusting" and "disgrace", but the Russian Foreign Ministry's Maria Zakharova had a different opinion. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

The Hungarian government has effectively dismissed the claims made in a recent Direkt36 investigative article, while key questions still remain unanswered. Here's our summary of all that we know so far. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

Without a unified response from Europe, some governments have announced measures to cap spiking prices. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

At Orbán’s rallies, standoffs between protesters and organized teams working to silence them have produced scenes charged with extreme tension in the run-up to the Hungarian elections. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

A group of investigative journalists have obtained and verified the transcripts and the recordings of Péter Szijjártó's conversations with Sergey Lavrov and another high-ranking Russian official. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

Jehan Paumero is a Frenchman who calls the Hungarian town of Pécs home. He first came to Hungary 22 years ago for a year, and ended up staying. We spoke with him about his first book, identity, transgenerational trauma, and the nightlif... telex.hu/english/2026/0…

The leader of the Tisza Party received a higher score regarding most of the positive attributes. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

A new documentary seeks to expose the intimidation tactics used to buy votes in rural areas of Hungary. The film's creators are also recruiting volunteers for the upcoming elections, who would monitor the integrity of the voting process ... telex.hu/english/2026/0…

It was announced on Thursday that the Hungarian government has filed charges of espionage against investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi. He responded with a statement, suggesting that he has knowledge of an even more serious case. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

Direkt36 recorded an interview with a police detective who worked in the department involved in the investigation against the Tisza IT specialists. In the interview, Bence Szabó spoke in detail about how the secret service had pressured... telex.hu/direkt36/2026/…

According to the Hungarian PM, "Ukrainian spies and IT specialists paid by the Ukrainians are coming and going in the Tisza Party as they please. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

According to the Hungarian Foreign Minister, Telex’s reporter is trying to divert attention from the wiretapping of a phone conversation which happened between him and Sergey Lavrov six years ago, by asking about the news story that ha... telex.hu/english/2026/0…

The March data also showed that far-right Mi Hazánk currently falls short of the five percent threshold needed to enter the Hungarian parliament. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

According to the US President, Orbán "has delivered phenomenal results". telex.hu/english/2026/0…

Orbán will present the proposal at Thursday's cabinet meeting. Until Ukraine supplies oil, it will not receive gas – he said. telex.hu/english/2026/0…

He typically consults with key partners such as Russia on matters affecting them which were discussed at EU Foreign Affairs Council meetings, the Hungarian FM said on Monday. According to Donald Tusk, this amounts to an admission that he... telex.hu/english/2026/0…

According to documents obtained by Direkt36, a secret operation was carried out to bring down the IT systems of the Hungarian opposition party Tisza. IT specialists affiliated with the party planned to expose this, but then police office... telex.hu/direkt36/2026/…

Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi, who wrote about the wiretapping of Péter Szijjártó, was wiretapped, and the pro-government media spun the story to make it seem like he had given the FM's phone number to a foreign intelligence ser... telex.hu/english/2026/0…