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Personal and professional links between Orbán and new Euronews owner

The venture capital firm set to acquire pan-European media outlet Euronews has long-standing personal and professional ties to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has drawn widespread criticism for having presided over a recent worsening of media pluralism in Hungary. 

Under the deal announced on Friday, Alpac Capital, which has offices in Lisbon, Budapest and Dubai, will buy an 88% share of Euronews from its current majority stakeholder.[Shutterstock / Anton Garin]

Molly Killeen Euractiv 22-12-2021 17:09 3 min. read Content type: Euractiv is part of the Trust Project
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