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A report was made to the Ministry of Economic Development and Energy regarding the supports of the Kisfaludy program, suspected of mismanagement and public procurement cartel, as a total of 475.3 billion forints were awarded between 2018 and 2026 within the framework of the program, a significant part of which was distributed through decisions outside of the tender process. #KisfaludyProgram #turizmus #támogatások (translated)

Suspicion of collusion has arisen around the Budapest Airport cleaning public procurement, after Viktor Orbán's brother, Áron Orbán, withdrew from one of the affected companies, and the prices submitted by the bidders significantly exceed the airport's planned budget. #BudapestAirport #költségvetés #kartell (translated)

The author wrote that a peace proposal had been adopted in the state parliament and thanked Ulrich Siegmund and Dr. Claudia Wittig. The camp he described as the "war-mongering cartel" and Springer-Palantir had thereby received headwind for the first time. #Frieden #Landtag #Gegenseitigkeit #DE (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson wrote that the situation was not so dramatic and that they would not be able to manage it under current conditions. She stated that C did not want to participate in the joint preliminary meetings, where the ongoing parliamentary work was handled, and described the group as their "cartel." According to Gabrielsson, the government support was still unclear from C's perspective, with L and KD instead of V. Therefore, she assumed that all red-green parties believed that a transitional budget was the solution. #politik #budget #Sverige (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson wrote that there was very little time left before the budget tables needed to be ready and that she saw it as unrealistic to manage to produce a budget, even if the work started immediately. She stated that C had not yet decided whether V would be part of the government support. A transitional budget was, according to Gabrielsson, the solution when a new government was not in place. It would allow parties that later agreed to govern together to allocate the reform space in a supplementary budget. She wrote that V could agree on individual issues in the ongoing work of the parliament, even in the budget work. Gabrielsson described S, V, C, and MP as a common cartel but said that C still refused to participate in the coordination and did not want to attend the parties' joint preparatory meetings. Therefore, none of the red-green parties could claim that they would manage to produce a common budget, she wrote. She argued that V had not primarily blocked the work. Before the parties agreed on cooperation during the term, they needed, according to Gabrielsson, to clarify who would cooperate, how it would take place, and what the negotiations would aim for. However, she wrote that this was not primarily the reason the parties had failed to agree on a common budget. https://t.co/YtGI6l7zpX #Budget #Regering #Politik (translated)

The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) plan to repurchase the Vienna Mitte train station, which they sold in 2005, bringing the entire shopping and office complex back into their possession, provided that the transaction is approved under antitrust law. #ÖBB #Immobilien #WienMitte (translated)

After a temporary reporting pause by several US broadcasters regarding President Trump, interpreted as a protest against his exclusion of media from the White House, the US Department of Justice is investigating possible violations of antitrust law. #Trump #Medienfreiheit #Justizministerium (translated)

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation against five major television networks that organized the boycott of President Donald Trump's appearances in reaction to the banning of certain journalists from the White House, as this may violate antitrust laws. #Hausverbot #USMedien #Kartellrecht (translated)

Janina Lionello criticized BMW, stating that the company showed less moral vigilance regarding Chinese supply chains with forced labor and an antitrust fine of hundreds of millions of euros. She wrote that when one can profile themselves without personal risk, even representatives of the fossil fuel industry and male-dominated power structures become courageous resistance fighters. #Menschenrechte #Lieferketten #Umweltschutz (translated)

"Cosco primarily transports containers by sea, while Zippel organizes the further transport of containers from the seaports to the inland. The companies operate at different levels of the transport chain and are not in direct competition with each other," argued the head of the competition authority, Andreas Mundt, at the time. #Sicherheitsbedenken #Logistik #Investitionen (translated)