June 11, 2024. 2 min
The Hungarian public media signed an settlement with a number of Chinese language state actors in Might. Requesting the Chinese language agreements, we turned to the general public media with a public curiosity information request. The general public media refused the information request, so we’re going to court docket.
The general public media refused our request for information within the public curiosity, through which we requested contracts concluded with any group primarily based in China within the interval between 2020 and 2024. We’ll go to court docket to satisfy the information request.
Following Chinese language President Xi Jinping’s go to to Budapest in Might, the English version of the Chinese language state information company Xinhua communicated a exact listing of eighteen gadgets on the Hungarian-Chinese language agreements concluded between numerous organizations because of the go to. The listing additionally contains three agreements, one among which is the Hungarian Media Service Help and Asset Administration Fund (MTVA), which operates Hungarian public media.
These are the next:
- information trade and cooperation settlement between Xinhua Information Company and MTVA and Duna Médiaszolgáltat Nonprofit Zrt.,
- memorandum on deepening cooperation between China Media Group and MTVA,
- cooperation settlement between Zsenmin Zsipao and MTVA and Duna Médiaszolgáltat Nonprofit Zrt.
Among the many three media organizations signing the agreements from the Chinese language facet, Xinhua operates as an official multilingual state information company subordinated to the State Council of the Individuals’s Republic of China, China Media Group, managed by the Chinese language Communist Social gathering, publishes numerous, partly worldwide, radio and tv channels, Zhenmin And Zsipao is the occasion’s official, multilingual every day newspaper.
Hirado.hu, which belongs to the general public media report Hungarian public media have been cooperating with China Media Group since 2023. MTVA additionally with different Chinese language media suppliers sure settlement earlier: in 2023, the Hungarian public media signed a contract with the Hunan Broadcasting System for program trade and future co-production. In 2015, with the assistance of a knowledge request within the public curiosity, we had been in a position to report on Átlátszón that the present season of the competitors sequence Sport With out Borders was produced by MTVA in China.
Our present request for information was denied by the MTVA on the grounds that they can’t be obliged to provide new information; in Hungarian, that they aren’t keen to pick from their contracts these concluded with the Chinese language occasion. We dispute their place and attempt to get entry to the paperwork by litigation.
Márton Sarkadi Nagy
Cowl picture: MTVA correspondent Balázs Beregi on the published of the Chinese language CTGN tv (CTGN / Youtube)
