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10th February, 2025
Orbán to outlaw NGOs that receive foreign funds
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán vowed to make it illegal for NGOs to receive money from the US as he ramped up his rhetoric against such groups in his Friday morning interview with Kossuth Rádió, asserting that their aim is to overthrow his government.
Orbán accused media outlets of being part of such a plot, saying “media, media platforms, online communication, NGOs, all of this increased the power of the left, and they all received this money with the aim of overthrowing the government.”
Financial contributions coming from the US must be made fully transparent and those who accept it must be penalised. “It is not possible to accept money from abroad in order to influence Hungarian politics, and those who participated in this must face legal consequences in the future.”
Further escalating his rhetoric, he declared “now is the moment when these international networks must be dealt with, they must be swept away, their existence must be made legally impossible.”
In one of the rare occasions on which he mentioned the leading opposition politician by name, Orbán said the international media consciously vilifies him but builds up opposition politicians. Citing Politico as an example, which he said the Brussels-based website “continuously insults Hungary,” while boosting the profile of Péter Márki-Zay or now Péter Magyar.”
He went on to say that Soros organisations and the EU support these as well as such goals as “gender madness”, and claimed that these circles are financing the ongoing anti-government protests in Serbia and Slovakia.
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Sources regularly consulted, with abbreviations used in text: Népszabadság (N); Magyar Hírlap (MH); Világgazdaság (VG); Napi Gazdaság (NG); Magyar Nemzet (MN); Népszava (Nsz); Kossuth Rádió news (KR); nightly TV news (TV).
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