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EU tells Hungary to scrap its anti-NGO bill or face court
EU Observer ^ | May 23, 2025, 4:17:32 PM | Nikolaj Nielsen

Posted on 05/25/2025 1:44:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The European Commission has told Hungary to scrap its Transparency of Public Life bill or face possible legal consequences.

“The Commission has great concerns with this draft. If adopted as it is, it would constitute a serious breach of EU principles and law,” said a commission spokesperson, in an email on Friday (23 May).

”Therefore, we ask that this draft be withdrawn from the legislative process. We will not hesitate to take the necessary action if this draft is adopted,” he added.

The statement comes a day after over 300 civil society organizations demanded the Brussels-executive intervene after Hungary had tabled the bill, which critics say is a full frontal attack against NGOs and independent media.

The letter, sent to commission president Ursula von der Leyen, warned that the Hungarian bill would enable the government to defund and dissolve any organization it designates as a threat to Hungarian sovereignty.

The bill gives Hungary’s Sovereignty Protection Office (SPO) extra crackdown powers against the perceived threats.

The office is already the center of a legal case launched by the commission against Hungary last year at the European Court of Justice.

The NGOs are now demanding the commission to request interim measures at the court in order to “halt the progress and impact of the bill.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; European Union; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: eussr; fourthreich; hungary; ngo
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1 posted on 05/25/2025 1:44:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

,,, increasingly, EU membership isn’t suiting Hungary. Hungary is for preservation of commonsense and family values. The EU is spreading poverty evenly as it spreads east collecting peasant states and drawing them into hyper bureaucracy.


2 posted on 05/25/2025 1:58:52 AM PDT by shaggy eel (A long way south of the border.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hungary to EU ….. STUFF IT !


3 posted on 05/25/2025 2:11:07 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Olog-hai

Nothing screams democracy more than a bunch of unelected government bureaucrats issuing threats to a popular elected government in Hungary.


4 posted on 05/25/2025 2:12:54 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Olog-hai

Allow us to infiltrate your country and use our money to subvert the political will of your people or we’ll have our rigged court rule against you.

I believe in truth in advertising.


5 posted on 05/25/2025 2:20:49 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Highest Authority
Having lived in Budapest twice, the Hungarians would say something more like:

Mennyi a budos kurva anyad picsaba!

or simply

a kurva anyad!

Its best that nobody here will understand either of those. Let's just say they're wonderfully creative with their insults. :^)

6 posted on 05/25/2025 2:39:01 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Olog-hai

NGO’s are nothing than a wealth transfer. Cut them off completely.


7 posted on 05/25/2025 2:53:05 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
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To: Olog-hai

serious breach of EU principles and law,”

Meaning we have your a##es in a sling and you will pay into our scam to hold up the globalists utopia


8 posted on 05/25/2025 2:55:47 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (t)
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To: Olog-hai

Tell The European Commission that they can go pound sand


9 posted on 05/25/2025 2:57:32 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Olog-hai

Very telling. It appears the EU uses NGOs, no doubt for nefarious reasons, and it doesn’t want Hungary picking their flowers.


10 posted on 05/25/2025 3:13:46 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: Olog-hai
“The Commission has great concerns with this draft. If adopted as it is, it would constitute a serious breach of EU principles and law”

Eurospeak Translation: “Hungary must accept LGBT supremacy laws and take in millions of Muslim invaders, or else!”
11 posted on 05/25/2025 3:26:28 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Eurospeak Translation: “Hungary must accept LGBT supremacy laws and take in millions of Muslim invaders, or else!”

Biden regime:

“America must accept LGBT supremacy laws and take in millions of illegals or else!”

Imagine if they were still in power.


12 posted on 05/25/2025 4:22:44 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (President Trump is back.)
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To: Jonty30

As USAID is revealed as a global money laundering op, We are seeing that NGOs are used by intel communities as tools for population conditioning via psyop, for regime control and regime change. This is why they fight against transparency laws. We saw this in the Republic of Georgia, too


13 posted on 05/25/2025 4:39:29 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: rottweiller_inc

“Very telling. It appears the EU uses NGOs, no doubt for nefarious reasons”

That’s how the Neocons overthrew Ukraine’s duly-elected government, and got control of numerous other countries. Basically, the CIA and similar organizations figured out that it was far easier to insert their people into countries through the “front door” as NGOs operate, than to sneak them in through the backdoor in various ways. But now countries are wise to it and it’s pissing off the Globalists/Neocons to no end. Last year they even went to the extreme of creating huge protests in Georgia over a bill that would simply for organizations there if they had significant foreign funding. Basically they created protests of people protesting AGAINST transparency - something that I’ve never, ever, heard of until then.

In Hungary’s case, they have a problem - they are surrounded by EU-controlled countries so they have to walk a very think tightrope as the EU can tighten their noose at will. However, if Russia is forced to liberate all of Ukraine, something they’d rather not have to do, then Hungary would have friendly neighbor...but who knows if that will happen.


14 posted on 05/25/2025 4:58:46 AM PDT by BobL
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I’m thinking they use NGOs to enforce their will in member countries to act like an unofficial check of sorts on elections, so the winner is unable to stray too far from the EU party line.


15 posted on 05/25/2025 5:02:15 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: FLT-bird

“Allow us to infiltrate your country and use our money to subvert the political will of your people or we’ll have our rigged court rule against you. I believe in truth in advertising.”

That was the INGENIOUS part of the EU. They sucked-in country after country under the pretense of open borders between them and a single currency, but otherwise promising the countries that they would keep their identities, foreign policy, courts, and ability to vote freely.

But then, having captured enough counties, now the EU is in the process of carrying out their REAL PLAN, which is to end those countries and turn the continent into one big Globalist-controlled blob. But there is a bright side, their open (external) borders allowing mass immigration will likely put an end to the EU far sooner than the EU can become a threat to the world. Unfortunately, the result will, of course, be the end of everything that was once considered Europe - thousands of years of history - GONE.


16 posted on 05/25/2025 5:05:26 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Jonty30

“NGO’s are nothing than a wealth transfer. Cut them off completely.”

They’re a LOT MORE than a wealth transfer - they are foreign entities TAKING OVER country after country, like a virus, and they’re causing the deaths of millions around the world, including in Europe.


17 posted on 05/25/2025 5:07:42 AM PDT by BobL
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To: silverleaf

“We saw this in the Republic of Georgia, too”

...and they captured Thailand too, as Thailand is now forced to allow Gay Marriage. They’re trying to do the same in Japan, but Japan is holding out, but they are weakening.


18 posted on 05/25/2025 5:09:34 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Western Europe is in big trouble of losing their history, culture and identity. That is not the case for those countries that were formerly behind the Iron Curtain. 45 years of socialist tyranny has inoculated them against Wokeism, multi-culti, Gaia Worship, etc. Note that they did not open their borders to muslim invaders. They have not wasted vast sums on the boondoggle of solar panels and windmills. They don’t hate themselves.

Having had to fight so hard to regain their national sovereignty, they’re not about to give it up. They’re content to be in the EU so long as it pays.....ie so long as they get money for infrastructure from the EU, so long as their citizens can work in Western Europe for more money, so long as they get trade benefits from being in the EU, etc. Ultimately if the EU pushes too hard and demands they hand over their countries for destruction equal to that of Western European countries, they’ll leave the EU. Their citizens will not stand for becoming the disaster areas western European countries have made of themselves.


19 posted on 05/25/2025 5:11:01 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: rottweiller_inc

“I’m thinking they use NGOs to enforce their will in member countries to act like an unofficial check of sorts on elections, so the winner is unable to stray too far from the EU party line.”

Their main purpose is to capture governments. Once they do that, then they work with the EU-USAID captured government to use their tools to ‘change the culture’. For example, in Ukraine, as I remember reading, only about 20% of the people there wanted to be in NATO as they knew it would not end well, but 5 years after they captured the government of Ukraine (but still well before the war), that number went to something like 60%. And it’s not hard to see why - the people were conditioned to believe that Russia was their enemy using the media, educational, and cultural systems controlled by the government and that NATO would be there to protect them if they turned in that direct - so they did, and look what they got for it.


20 posted on 05/25/2025 5:16:46 AM PDT by BobL
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