In Anti-Soros Feud, Hungary Adopts Rules on Foreign-Financed Groups

RisingWorld 2017-06-14

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In Anti-Soros Feud, Hungary Adopts Rules on Foreign-Financed Groups
Mr. Soros said that There is an important element in public life in Hungary which is not transparent and not open — and
that is the Soros network, with its mafia-style operation and its agentlike organizations,
By HELENE BIENVENU and PALKO KARASZJUNE 13, 2017
BUDAPEST — Defying warnings from the European Union and pleas by advocates for civil and political rights, Hungary’s right-wing government passed legislation on Tuesday to require nongovernmental organizations
that receive foreign financing to identify themselves as such and to disclose their donors.
Critics have compared the move — debated for weeks in Parliament — to a 2012 law in Russia
that required nonprofit groups that received foreign financing to identify themselves as "foreign agents." The new Hungarian law comes weeks after the Orban government passed a law that threatened to close Central European University, which was founded by the Hungarian-American financier George Soros.
that The Hungarian people,

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