{"id":289581,"date":"2017-01-11T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hungary-plans-to-crackdown-on-all-soros-funded-ngos\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:45:03","slug":"hungary-plans-to-crackdown-on-all-soros-funded-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hungary-plans-to-crackdown-on-all-soros-funded-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Plans to Crackdown on All Soros-Funded NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>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\u2019s party.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union member will use \u201call the tools at its disposal\u201d to \u201csweep out\u201d NGOs funded by the Hungarian-born financier, which \u201cserve global capitalists and back political correctness over national governments,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that there is an opportunity for this, internationally,\u201d because of Trump\u2019s election, state news service MTI reported Nemeth as saying. Lawmakers will start debating a bill to let authorities audit NGO executives, according to parliament\u2019s legislative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parlament.hu\/documents\/10181\/56621\/Tvalk_program_2017_tavasz.pdf\/77d69862-7613-4fe1-a490-d15975f5e81f\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to 2017 Hungarian legislative agenda\">agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orban, the first European leader to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-11-25\/trump-said-to-invite-black-sheep-hungarian-premier-to-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hungary\u2019s Orban Says Trump Invited Him to U.S. to Reset Ties (3)\">publicly back<\/a> Trump\u2019s campaign, has ignored criticism from the European Commission and U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s administration for building a self-described \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2014-07-28\/orban-says-he-seeks-to-end-liberal-democracy-in-hungary\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Orban Seeks End to Hungarian Liberal Democracy as Russia Eyed\">illiberal state<\/a>\u201d modeled on authoritarian regimes including Russia, China and Turkey. In 2014, Orban personally ordered the state audit agency to probe foundations financed by Norway and said that civil society groups financed from abroad were covers for \u201cpaid political activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orban and his administration have frequently singled out NGOs&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/hungary-plans-to-crackdown-on-all-soros-funded-ngos\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s party. The European Union member will use \u201call the tools at its disposal\u201d to \u201csweep out\u201d NGOs funded by the Hungarian-born financier, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}