Hungary Plans to Crack Down on All Soros-Funded NGOs
- Ruling Fidesz party vice president pledges to ‘sweep out’ NGOs
- Premier Orban, Trump backer, vowed to build ‘illiberal state’
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Hungary plans to crack down on non-governmental organizations linked to billionaire George Soros now that Donald Trump will occupy the White House, according to the deputy head of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party.
The European Union member will use “all the tools at its disposal” to “sweep out” NGOs funded by the Hungarian-born financier, which “serve global capitalists and back political correctness over national governments,” Szilard Nemeth, a vice president of the ruling Fidesz party, told reporters on Tuesday. No one answered the phone at the Open Society Institute in Budapest when Bloomberg News called outside business hours.