Hungary: Magyar targets conservative think tanks for elimination but they plan on sticking around

Incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is going to war with various right-wing think tanks that have received state funding under Viktor Orbán, and today, he said he will be getting brutal about it in relation to the conservative institute Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC).

“Today, I will hold talks with Zsolt Hernádi, Chairman-CEO of @MOL_Group. I will request information from him regarding Hungary’s fuel supply security. I expect MOL not to pay the 25 billion forint dividend to @MCC_Budapest,” Magyar posted on X.

Today, I will hold talks with Zsolt Hernádi, Chairman-CEO of @MOL_Group. I will request information from him regarding Hungary’s fuel supply security.
I expect MOL not to pay the 25 billion forint dividend to @MCC_Budapest.

— Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) (@magyarpeterMP) April 16, 2026

At issue is the 10 percent stake MCC owns in Hungary’s energy conglomerate MOL. U.S. Vice President JD Vance recently spoke at MCC in Budapest during the same visit he stumped for Viktor Orbán ahead of last Sunday’s election.

“Without a doubt, they’ll try and shut it down,” Frank Furedi, its executive director, said at an MCC Brussels event, as quoted by Politico.

But experts and insiders say the think tank has no intention of simply going away, and it reportedly has enough funds to run “for the next couple of years.”

Still, Magyar is deadset on trying, announcing at his first presser on Monday that no more state money will be going to institutions such as CPAC and MCC, going so far as to call their state financing — and ownership in companies such as MOL presumably — “a criminal offense.”

Yesterday, Magyar clashed repeatedly with presenters during a couple of interviews, at one point telling the M1 and Kossuth Radio hosts that he would be shutting the stations down as a first order of business until they were revamped per his standards of objectivity.

Magyar also met with President Tamás Sulyok, but not before stating that the head of state was “unworthy of representing the unity of the Hungarian nation” and “unfit” to serve in office.

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