France, April 2 -- MCC Brussels is the European Union-facing branch of Mathias Corvinus Collegium - the Budapest-based organisation Orban's government has turned into "the mouthpiece of the Orban regime in the EU quarter in Brussels", according to Olivier Hoedeman of the Corporate Europe Observatory research and campaign group. 

According to Hoedeman, MCC Brussels presents itself as a think tank, but in practice works with "a very much predetermined agenda", rather than open-ended research - an agenda which promotes authoritarian, conservative politics inside the European Parliament.

MCC Brussels publishes reports, organises debates and workshops, and produces videos which circulate through far-right networks across Europe, and are...