US EditionRadio Free Europe’s Hungarian service shuts down after Trump funding cuts
Radio Free Europe's Hungarian Service, relaunched in 2020 to counter media control under Viktor Orbán, will cease broadcasting though content remains online.
- From midnight on November 21, RFE/RL’s Hungarian Service closes, with termination effective November 21, 2025.
- Earlier this month, USAGM notified Congress it intended to terminate RFE/RL's Hungarian Service, relaunched in 2020 after operating from 1950 to 1993.
- RFE/RL President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Capus praised Hungarian Service journalists for their professionalism and contribution to RFE/RL’s success.
- Service content will remain available online, and the Hungarian Service editorial team had worked with dedication to provide independent journalism for audiences in Hungary.
- Tibor Vovesz, head of the Hungarian Service, thanked RFE/RL audience and readers for their trust and support, expressing deep gratitude for their engagement.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) was shut down in Hungary at midnight on Monday, after the US-funded broadcaster was accused by the Trump administration of tarnishing the image of its ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
A few months before the Hungarian parliamentary elections scheduled for April 2026, the US Congress stopped the subsidies of Szabad Europa. Reporters Without Borders denounced "a further serious blow to the right of Hungarians to information".
The journalism of Radio Free Europe's Hungarian editorial team is "undermining" President Trump's foreign policy, according to U.S. Agency for Global Media adviser Kari Lake.
Radio Free Europe closing in key Trump ally Hungary
BUDAPEST - U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) will shut down in Hungary on Friday, it said, ending a five-year run of a media service that a U.S. official said had damaged President Donald Trump's foreign policy in a key ally. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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