"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."
Lord Kelvin

Tag Archives: Hungary

Impact Assessments, Public Consultation and Legislation in Hungary

Publications, ReportsHungary, impact assessment, quality of legislation, rule of law

This research explores important characteristics of the Hungarian legislation from 2010 through publicly accessible online administrative data. Our focus is measuring the quality of legislation, analysing its trends since 2006. The CRCB published its first analysis in July 2014 on the period of 1998-2012, which examined the quality of the Hungarian legislation. Our reports are not simple repetitions and updates. We extended and deepened our analysis in several areas. For instance, conserning the report of read more

Corruption risks of the nuclear power plant investments: What can we expect in the case of Paks II?

Presentations, Publications, Reportscorruption risk, Hungary, political corruption

December 22, 2014

In January 2014, the Hungarian Government announced that it reached an agreement with the government of Russia concerning constructing two new reactors to replace the current capacity at the Paks nuclear power plant. Paks I is a Soviet-built plant that has been operational since 1983. It is the only nuclear power plant in the country and provides about 40% of Hungarian electricity consumption. With an estimated budget of 3-4 trillion Hungarian forint (9-13 billion euros), the read more