BUDAPEST, July 21 -- A team of Hungarian prosecutors walked into a Fidesz party data center on Tuesday and walked out with servers. What makes the scene significant is not the raid itself, which occurs across European democracies, but what it represents: the party that spent sixteen years making itself effectively immune to prosecution in Hungary is now being examined by the institution it once controlled.

Hungary's Central Investigation Prosecutor's Office confirmed the operation, citing an ongoing embezzlement probe linked to Fidesz finances. The former ruling party, which governed Hungary from 2010 until Prime Minister Peter Magyar's election victory in 2025, described the raid as politically motivated and said it was cooperating with...