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PM Orbán: NGOs received money from three sources to try and topple government

The prime minister said Hungary was preparing to sign a "substantial" economic agreement with the US, having agreed on it with President Trump before his election.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungarian civil organizations and NGOs have received money from "the Soros foundations, the US government and Brussels", to promote left-wing causes, strengthen opposition parties and topple the government.

During an interview with public radio on Friday, PM Orbán said Hungary was preparing to sign a "substantial" economic agreement with the US, having agreed on it with President Trump before his election.

PM Orbán said Trump has decided to make public the sums US government agencies had paid in past years and the organizations they had paid them to.

"The global liberal elite used the US budget and government to finance their financial and ideological agenda worldwide. They made it look like aid, but it was really a tool of political influence," he said.

He said the beneficiaries had received funding from Soros foundations and the US budget. "They used that money for activities [aimed at] dismantling the community, supporting migration, going against families and financing gender madness worldwide," he said. In Hungary's case, "Brussels also supports those aims," he added.