‘Attack on civil society’: why Viktor Orbán’s favourite thinktank is in crisis

MCC Brussels received lavish funding from Budapest, but Hungary’s new PM is launching an investigation Under glittering chandeliers in a neoclassical ballroom, guests took their seats. It was 10am and scores of people had gathered at a private members’ club in Brussels for a conference to mark 250 years of American independence, organised by Viktor Orbán’s favourite thinktank in the EU capital, MCC Brussels. Opening the one-day event, the MCC director, Frank Furedi, said the 250th anniversary...

By Jennifer Rankin in Brussels