Soros foundation leaves, Hungarian Liberal flagship NGOs in a mess?
Alex Soros, the heir of the Soros empire, has decided to relocate the majority of their activities from the European Union. As a result, many Hungarian liberal NGOs and rights activists may find themselves in a difficult situation since they cannot hope for help from the conservative Orbán cabinet.
According to G7, a Hungarian economy news outlet, Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) is to remove much of its support and activities from the European Union. Globally, they will lay off 40% of their employees. According to the organisation’s spokesman, they have already informed their Hungarian partners about the decision.
OSF will restructure its activity targeting East Europe and the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. Among the victims are many EU organisations and programmes. Having said that, they will still continue to support some programmes, e.g. Roma projects, but most of their initiatives will be ceased. In 2018, they had already closed down their office in Budapest due to the harsh blows of the Orbán government and relocated it to Berlin. Now they will dismiss 80% of their employees from that bureau.
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OSF supports Hungarian programmes and NGOs with more than 2-3 billion forints (EUR 5,170,024-7,755,036) annually. In 2020, they distributed USD 6.8 million (HUF 2.4 billion – EUR 6,204,029) in Hungary. That is a large sum of money, and those organisations and programmes do not have good chances to receive national funds. The NGOs concerned are e.g. the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, TASZ, Political Capital, Rosa Parks Foundation and Transparency International Hungary. The list G7 made is not complete because OSF doesn’t share a register of the Hungarian organisations that received financial support. But the organisations on the top of the list were granted 2-2.3 million dollars in the last five years, which is a significant amount.
Orbán sceptic about Soros’s withdrawal: only when the last “soldier” leaves!
According to hvg.hu, the Soros foundations support independent Hungarian media outlets like Átlátszó, 444.hu and Direkt36. In the case of Átlátszó, the support is 20-30% of their annual budget. Between 2016 and 2021, more than 90 Hungarian NGOs and programmes received financial support from the Soros empire, including Orbán’s former István Bibó College. Balázs Orbán, the prime minister’s political director, said he would only believe in the “withdrawal of the occupying forces when the last Soros soldier left”.
Interestingly, the first Soros foundation was created in Hungary in 1984. However, George Soros intended to cease its operation in 2003 as he believed the foundation had accomplished its objectives. In the end, he decided otherwise. Political pressure increased after the 2015 migrant crisis when the Orbán cabinet called him public enemy nr 1 in Hungary who is responsible for the arrival of the hundreds of thousands of migrants aiming towards Germany and West Europe. Last December, George Soros passed OSF to his heir, Alex Soros, who made the decision to concentrate on non-EU countries.
Alex Soros and Bill Clinton:
Good riddance.
Great news!!! It is time for Soros, and his son to make citizens of some other country miserable. Their society caused nothing but discord. The EU is in such a mess because the members of the EU Parliament listened to the Soros’ Society, flooded the continent with uneducated, unassimilable people as well as a large number of criminals. The Soros’ Society’s motto is if you are unhappy in your home country, go and be supported in the EU, especially by Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, etc.. In the US, with money, they managed to elect District Attorneys, who refuse to enforce the law thereby creating a lawless society. There is not one good thing that this society managed to do with all that money.
The migrant crisis in Europe in 2015 was created by Russia in Syria. Russia created chaos in that country supporting murderous dictator Bashar al Assad. Assad allows the Russian navy to lease the Syrian naval port of Tartus while Putin provides Russian military support to bomb opposition forces. Russia sought to create the Ukrainian refugee crisis to further destabilize Europe sending six million refugees into neighbouring European countries. The constant bombing of civilian targets serves to drive Ukrainians out. Belarus has flown in refugees from Syria to Minsk, bused them to the Polish border and forced them at gunpoint to cross. Soros has nothing to do with any migrant crisis. It’s Russia and the evil Putin regime which is chiefly responsible. The Orban government gives its’ support to the evil Putin regime while feeding Hungarians nonsense propaganda to serve Russian interests.
hes a demon ,get rid of him . Hungarians protect kids he doesnt . not a good Hungarian .
Not to worry, they will be spreading their misery in The USA so they can finish off whats left of America with their agenda to turn the USA into the new Soviet Union.
The Biden Crime Family just donated 25M$ to left wing media in Hungary.
Soros the biggest doner to the DNC and 25% of the EU parliment. You really aren’t losing any Soros funding – it’s a clever way of having the US taxpayers foot the bill.
Soros will be back for DNC biggest 2024 funding – more than the 25M.
I’m sure junior is thrilled to spend the day with Clinton
The second biggest doner was the bitcoin clown who screwed billions out of its investors
Three of the AGs out to destroy Trump are Soros clowns.
Destroying the US is a disaster to the free world
Does old man Soros is actually wearing pants in the second picture? The picture seems to be of a sick old man, half dressed.