Hungary Backs Away From Vow to ‘Sweep Out’ Soros-Funded NGOs
- Cabinet still plans to tighten rules on foreign-funded groups
- Minister’s comment contradicts senior ruling party official
Ice floats in the water of the River Danube in front of the parliament building of Budapest downtown on January 8, 2017.
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Hungary’s government retreated from a pledge to “sweep out” charities funded by billionaire George Soros, but it’s still planning to tighten rules on non-governmental organizations, according to the head of the prime minister’s office.
A senior member of Premier Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party vowed this week to use “all tools at its disposal” to crack down on the 86-year-old billionaire’s network of charities and accused it of “serving global capitalists” and backing “political correctness over national governments.”