# Danube Institute > [!info] Stub > Minimal-viable page created to resolve a wikilink. Expand with founding, funding structure, and fellowship roster. Budapest think tank sponsored by the [[Viktor Orbán]] administration to court and fund Western conservative writers and intellectuals. [[Rod Dreher]] was a director and, until recently, funded by the institute. It co-funded the [[Edmund Burke Foundation]]'s 2023 National Conservatism conference in Brussels alongside the [[Mathias Corvinus Collegium]]. Both institutions are implicated in a potential criminal investigation opened under Hungary's new prime minister Péter Magyar into the alleged misuse of Hungarian public funds for foreign influence operations in Britain. ## See Also - [[Viktor Orbán]] - [[Mathias Corvinus Collegium]] - [[Rod Dreher]] - [[National Conservatism]]