Szabolcs Panyi: Orbán took away technology-related areas from Rogán because of sanctions

The government decree on the reallocation of tasks was drafted at the last minute.

At the end of February, Antal Rogán, the minister who headed the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, was suddenly stripped of his oversight of key areas such as IT developments and public procurement, as well as e-government; essentially, all technology-related areas were taken away from him, writes journalist Szabolcs Panyi in the newsletter of the Visegrad regional investigative website VSquare. According to Panyi, Viktor Orbán did not give a sub…

Although no official justification has been received, a journalist from Direkt36 knows that US companies have indicated that due to the sanctions they will not be able to supply technology (neither hardware nor software) to state institutions controlled by Rogán.