Margo Smit is the director of the Dutch Association of Investigative Journalists (VVJ), which led a study into the state of investigative journalism in Europe, with a special focus on reporting the fraudulent use of EU funds. Smit talked about the project in a recent interview with Hungarian website Atlatszo.hu, a website of investigative journalism based in Hungary.
Yesterday an MP, Márton Gyöngyösi (who had aired his extremist views in The Jewish Chronicle earlier this year) from Hungary’s extreme right party, Jobbik - in Parliament – called for a census of the number of Jews in Hungary (and especially in Parliament) who - according to him - represent a hazard for national security, given the current Gaza conflict.
A crowd of some 100 000 Hungarians (estimated by the organizers) unhappy with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government gathered on 23 October in Budapest to demonstrate on the 55th anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 revolution. The demonstrators protested against a series of measures and autocratic governing methods of FIDESZ’s two thirds majority.
