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What they do in the shadows part II - The worst of USAID
USAID was created to provide humanitarian aid, but it has become a vehicle for ideological influence, wasteful spending, and outright corruption.
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Guess who’s back: Soros Network aims to undermine Hungary-Germany strategic cooperation
In a Soros-funded report, Berlin-based liberal think tank Institut für Europäische Politik advises the German Federal Government to crack down on the “Hungarian authoritarian regime.”
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Like snakes in the grass: Lies, bribes and corruption and the NGO world
The recent Qatargate scandal reveals the two-faced nature of some NGOs, taking advantage of a privileged image to commit fraud and bribery for power.
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State Secretary warns against dangers of NGOs influence on decision-making
The Hungarian government was fighting against people who tried to make decisions without the authority to do so.
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Fidesz lawmaker: PACE report on NGOs "political attack" against Hungary
A report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on NGOs included “a political attack” against Hungary instead of an objective analysis of the country’s legal system.
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Justice Minister discusses cooperation with three NGOs
The minister met with Nóra Király from the young family association Ficsak, from the green group she met Zöld Követ Egyesület and from the women’s rights association, Mindennapok Női Szemmel.
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PM Orbán urges EU talks on NGO transparency
The prime minister said the transparency of “EU-funded, politically engaged NGOs which attack their own governments in an unacceptable manner” should be discussed at a later date.
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Hungary on ECJ ruling: We will continue to insist on the transparency of NGOs
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) might not agree with the tools we put in place in 2017, but its latest ruling only shows that Hungary’s goal of increasing the transparency of NGO finances is, in fact, legitimate.
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NGOs in Transit: Dropping the objective façade
Freedom House has just released its latest edition of Nations in Transit, its annual ranking of countries in former communist eastern Europe and Eurasia. They call it a “comprehensive, comparative, and multidimensional” study that provides “in-depth” data. The title of this year’s edition: Dropping the Democratic Façade.
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FM: The EU will launch a new operation to combat people smuggling
The foreign minister said Hungary insists on the policy of suspending the operation and withdrawing ships from the region if it appears that migration is increasing as a result.
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PM Orbán calls on Soros-type civil organizations to leave central Europe
“We are no longer prepared to finance from European money a multitude of hostile, Soros-type pseudo-civil organizations,” the Prime Minister said.
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You have the right to know: your taxpayer money will flow to the coffers of pro-migration NGOs
In an essay published yesterday on the official Élysée website, President Macron calls “For European Renewal with a program based on freedom, protection and progress. “We should ban,” the president writes, “the funding of European political parties by foreign powers.” We need to protect our democracies against foreign powers seeking to manipulate them.
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Hungarian NGO activists lobby MPs in the Dutch Parliament to put more pressure on Hungary
Earlier this week, NRC Handelsblad in the Netherlands published an interview with Márta Pardavi, president of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, under the title, “I understand if the Dutch are wondering why they give money to Hungary.” Just to be sure the readers know who Pardavi is, the Dutch paper points out that she was one of 28 on POLITICO Europe’s “Shaking, Shaping and Stirring Europe” list and leads an NGO that “provides legal assistance to asylum seekers.”