By shutting down M1’s news and dismantling the state media conglomerate that powered Orbán across 16 years, Magyar is testing how far a new Hungarian government can go in rewriting the rules of information and how loudly the old guard in Budapest and Brussels will protest.

Nachdem Viktor Orbán in Ungarn jahrelang die Medienlandschaft zu seinen Gunsten umgebaut hat, soll die Presse nach seiner Abwahl wieder unabhängig werden. Umfassende Reformen sind…

By shutting down M1’s news and dismantling the state media conglomerate that powered Orbán across 16 years, Magyar is testing how far a new Hungarian government can go in…