{"id":361399,"date":"2018-05-16T06:55:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T05:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/george-soros-open-society-foundation-ends-operations-in-hungary\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T06:55:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T05:55:44","slug":"george-soros-open-society-foundation-ends-operations-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/george-soros-open-society-foundation-ends-operations-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation Ends Operations in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations is ending its operations in Hungary, accusing Budapest of repressing civil society. PM Viktor Orban has repeatedly slammed the tycoon for meddling in the nation\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaced with an increasingly repressive political and legal environment in Hungary, the Open Society Foundations are moving their Budapest-based international operations and staff to the German capital, Berlin,\u201d the group confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Gaspard, the president of the Open Society Foundations, lashed out at Budapest, saying it has \u201cdenigrated and misrepresented our work,\u201d while repressing civil society \u201cfor the sake of political gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group based its decision on the fact that Budapest\u00a0&#8220;prepares to impose further restrictions on nongovernmental organizations through what it has branded its &#8220;Stop Soros\u201d package of legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Viktor Orban has repeatedly spoken out against the detrimental agendas of Soros\u2019 foundation and other NGOs, accusing the billionaire of meddling in Hungary\u2019s internal political affairs by funding opposition groups.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the recent election and the victory of his Fidesz party, Orban\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cI know they won\u2019t accept the result of the election, they will organize all sorts of things, they have unlimited financial resources.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When news of the Open Society Foundations\u2019 possible departure from Hungary broke in April, Orban said:\u00a0\u201cYou might understand if I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/george-soros-open-society-foundation-ends-operations-in-hungary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations is ending its operations in Hungary, accusing Budapest of repressing civil society. PM Viktor Orban has repeatedly slammed the tycoon for meddling in the nation\u2019s internal affairs. \u201cFaced with an increasingly repressive political and legal environment in Hungary, the Open Society Foundations are moving their Budapest-based international operations and staff [&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-361399","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\/361399","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=361399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}