Lifting the lid on lobbying: national report on Hungary

CPS Research Fellow Attila Bartha authored the Hungarian national report on strategic partnership agreements published by Transparency International.

The Hungarian business environment is perceived to be more uncertain than in other countries of Central Europe and international comparative surveys found that most of the critical factors of Hungarian competitiveness derived from the low level of credibility and stability of regulations, as well as the lack of transparency in government policymaking. At present, business environment uncertainties in Hungary are not mainly economic in nature; they are rather related to some specific features of democratic policy-making and shaped first and foremost by the governing political elite.

Full study is available online on the TI website in English and in Hungarian.

Lifting the lid on lobbying: National report on Hungary. Lobbying in an uncertain business and regulatory environment (Download in English/in Hungarian)

Related media appearances:

in English:

• http://www.politics.hu/20141029/transparency-international-hungarians-lobbies-are-uncontrolled
• http://www.bbj.hu/business/transparency-international-releases-hungary-lobby-report_87191
• http://www.ceeinsight.net/2014/10/31/hungarys-lobby-activities-uncontrolled-non-transparent-transparency-international

in Hungarian:

• http://mandiner.hu/cikk/20141028_lobbizas_nincs_itt_semmi_latnivalo
• http://www.vagy.hu/tartalom/cikk/7767_lobbizas_nincs_itt_semmi
• http://figyelo.hu/cikkek/411320-rovidhir---transparency-international--a-vallalatok-ellenorizhetetlenul-lobbiznak-magyarorszagon
• http://www.napi.hu/magyar_gazdasag/kiderult_hol_dolnek_el_a_fontos_kerdesek_magyarorszagon.588730.html
• http://www.mon.hu/transparency-international-a-vallalatok-ellenorizhetetlenul-lobbiznak-magyarorszagon/2685203
• http://www.tozsdeforum.hu/uzlet-2/gazdasag/politikai-bizonytalansag-viszi-rossz-utra-a-cegeket/
• http://www.hirado.hu/2014/10/28/ti-a-vallalatok-ellenorizhetetlenul-lobbiznak-magyarorszagon/
• http://www.vg.hu/vallalatok/transparency-a-vallalatok-ellenorizhetetlenul-lobbiznak-magyarorszagon-437910
• http://nepszava.hu/cikk/1037799-transparency-ellenorizhetetlen-a-lobbizas-magyarorszagon/
• http://www.stop.hu/belfold/a-vallalatok-ellenorizhetetlenul-lobbiznak-magyarorszagon/1273639/
• http://www.mmonline.hu/cikk/igy_lobbiznak_a_hazai_cegek
• http://www.elemzeskozpont.hu/transparency-international-vallalatok-ellenorizhetetlenul-lobbizn
• http://profitline.hu/hircentrum/hir/321404/Transparency-International:-a-vallalatok-ellenorizhetetlenul-lobbiznak-Magyarorszagon