Posted on 05/15/2018 1:10:07 AM PDT by GraceG
BUDAPEST - George Soros' foundation said on Tuesday it would close its office in Budapest and move to Berlin, leaving what it called "an increasingly repressive political and legal environment" in Hungary.
The pro-democracy group said it was pulling out a day after the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced it would tighten restrictions on non-governmental organizations, under a law dubbed the "Stop Soros " bill.
Orban, who won a landslide election victory last month, has repeatedly accused Soros and his organization of encouraging migrants and undermining the national culture.
Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF) organization said it would continue to support human rights work in Hungary as well as projects linked to arts, media freedom, transparency, education and health care.
But it would move its Budapest-based international operations and staff to Germany.
"The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain, using tactics unprecedented in the history of the European Union," OSF president Patrick Gaspard said in a statement.
Opposition and rights groups have long said that a departure of the OSF would mark a milestone in a slide towards authoritarian rule in Hungary and go against the principles of the EU - a charge dismissed by the government.
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Making Hungary Great Again!
Make sure they don’t pull an ACORN and simply morph into something else...
Lived in Budapest twice - its one of my favorite cities in the world. Beautiful country. Friendly people. Gorgeous girls.
No muzzie invaders and no Soros. They intend to keep their beautiful country rather than surrender it. Hala Istennek! Immadok Magyarorszag!
Hungary and Poland holding strong.
:D
Getting too hot for him in Hungary? Good - now the rest of the world needs to oust him and his organizations from their presence also.
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