Last month, members of the global financial and political elite listened with rapt attention as George Soros, the famed money manager and purported champion of "open" societies, blasted "mafia states" like Russia and his native Hungary, while also criticizing US President Donald Trump, with Soros admitting that his "goal in the United States" for this year's midterm election was "to reestablish a functioning two-party system"...
Indeed, octogenarian Soros is showing no signs of dialing back his meddling in the affairs of European nations, and the US as well. And nowhere has his interference been more visible than in Hungary, where his former protege Viktor Orban has sought to close the country's borders to intruding refugees - a decision that has enraged Soros, who recently dedicated most of his eleven-figure fortune to erasing all national boundaries via his "Open Society" foundations.
After declaring Hungary "a mafia state" last summer and suggesting that he will do everything in his power to remove Orban from power, the country's ruling party has engaged in a heated propaganda battle against Soros and his agents that has included erecting anti-Soros billboard messages around the country.
Now, that battle is escalating as Orban and his party are gearing up for national elections in April. As Reutersreported Wednesday, the country's nationalist government introduced legislation to empower the country's interior minister to ban NGOs - like those funded by Soros - that support policies that might compromise national security - policies like open borders and unrestricted immigration.
The bill would impose a 25% tax on NGOs that back migration that are operating in Hungary...
The bill is an expansion of a measure Orban's government passed last year that required NGOs that take foreign money to register with the state.
The legislation could also ban Soros, who still possesses Hungarian citizenship, from entering the country...
The bill will also likely intensify Orban's confrontation with Brussels, as the European Commission said last year it was taking Budapest to the EU’s top court over its NGO laws as well as a higher education law that targets the Central European University in Budapest founded by Soros. Soros has spent $14 billion over the last 30 yearson his initiatives promoting far-left causes in the formerly Communist eastern and central Europe.
But should the bill pass - and it's expected that it will - he could virtually be cut off from supporting Orban's opponents during an election in a country where Soros has not lived in decades...
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