It returned to Hungary not as a radio, but as a multimedia website.

After twenty-seven years, Free Europe is once again present in Hungary. The media, funded by the United States Congress, operates in 23 countries where the government prevents the free flow of information or freedom of the press is not sufficiently developed.

In his greeting, Gyula Csák, director of Free Europe, explained the resumption saying that “although there are independent media in Hungary, there are many untold stories. We also explore these untold stories (either due to political prejudice, lack of financial resources or fear of the possible consequences) ”.

It promises that the issues that concern us all will be presented to the public in a balanced, independent, and professionally sound manner, rigorously monitored, free from political ideologies and focused on the facts.

The first major material on the site is about how three mothers from very different backgrounds tried to cope with orderly digital education due to the coronavirus epidemic.

The website was launched with a staff of 9 people, including Gyula Csák, and Media1 According to a previous article, the staff will not be much older, but they will also buy content from outsiders. It turned out that György Kerényi, the former editor-in-chief of Pesti Hírlap, and Bálint Szalai, who was among the first to leave the index after his dismissal, will remain there.

He only told the newspaper that as a non-profit organization, there would be no advertisements on the site or in his podcasts.


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Economist: The independence of Radio Europe, which is being relaunched in Hungary, can be questioned


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A tough pro-Trump figure took over the head of the state body that oversees American radios, immediately firing the leaders of the overseas tax broadcasts. This could also affect the operation of Radio Free Europe, which would return to Hungary precisely to provide information rather than propaganda.

This was broadcast by Free Europe in October 1956 - we can now listen to the historical broadcast minute by minute


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Between October 19 and November 12, a foreign shortwave broadcast at that time, in 1956, would be heard online 24 hours a day, exactly at the time it was broadcast, 63 years ago.