Members of the Hungarian National Assembly indeed had a busy day yesterday, as they passed a handful of important bills.
Minister Varga said the Hungarian government agrees with the Court “that the transparency of the funding of these organizations is in the interest of all of us, i.e. it is...
László Trócsányi joined his Israeli counterpart Ayelet Shaked to present Hungarian legislation on the transparency of NGOs receiving financial support from abroad
An article published in today's Magyar Idők - the first in what the author says will be a series of reports - takes a close look at a group called...
In case anyone continues to have doubts about whether George Soros blatantly interferes in political issues, here's yet more proof.
Well, isn’t that interesting? It seems the federal government of the US has taken exception to the activities of Russian-owned media outlet, RT, and will require RT to formally register as a foreign agent under FARA.
A number of Soros-funded NGOs in Hungary have declared that they will not comply with the new NGO law and will instead boycott out of civil disobedience. There’s nothing valiant in their cause, just hypocrisy. The fact that the same NGOs have no problem abiding by even stricter rules and regulations in Germany, Austria, Israel, and the US speaks for itself.
The EC said it has sent Hungary a letter of formal notice, which officially launches the procedure
"The most recent statement by the US Department of State is another stark example of double standards, since the regulation in force in the USA is much stricter than that in Hungary. In the United States, Soros organizations could never do what they are doing in Europe," Hungary's International Communications Office said
The president referred to civil organizations as “indispensable and respectable” players of a democracy. He said that Hungary had over 56,000 civil organizations and insisted that 99 percent of them would be left unaffected by the new legislation
The Venice Commission does not doubt the legitimacy of the bill and had acknowledged that creating a transparent state of affairs concerning NGOs funded from abroad was a legitimate objective for parliament
The draft law “pursues the legitimate aim of ensuring transparency of civil society organisations”.
Democracy means first and foremost accountability and the people’s right to participate in the decision making of their lives and futures. Governments, including the Hungarian government, are held accountable and can be voted out of power. The shadowy power networks of the “open society” are accountable to no one.