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Hungary ‘insulted’ by Lauder’s statement on Open Society Foundations’ move to Berlin, says official

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Hungary and its citizens are “deeply insulted” by public comments made by Ronald Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, concerning the move from Budapest to Berlin of the Open Society Foundations, the prime minister’s press chief said on Friday.

Lauder expressed concern about the Berlin move to Germany‘s Bild tabloid, saying

he did not agree “with everything that US billionaire George Soros says or does”, but he considered the treatment of a man “who has done so much” in central European countries to spread democracy after the fall of communism to be unworthy.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed a letter to Lauder expressing disappointment in his statement, Bertalan Havasi told MTI.

“It is well known and obvious in Budapest that the reason for the Foundation’s move is that Hungary has introduced rules that extend transparency to organisations financed from abroad,” Orbán wrote in the letter.

“I would respectfully call your attention … to the fact that the Foundation and its founder bear personal responsibility for the growth of anti-Semitism in Europe.

They have brought people to Europe — among migrants — whose political and religious views have dramatically increased the vulnerability of our Jewish communities. In contrast, Hungary and its government protects European Jewish communities when it prevents the uncontrolled entry of migrants into the European Union.

“Our policy has moral and theoretical reasons, and also serves the idea of Jewish-Christian coexistence, in which we continue to believe with conviction. For this we do not expect any recognition, or gratitude from the World Jewish Congress, of course,” the letter says.

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Spokesman: Fidesz to resist pressure to allow mass migration

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Ruling Fidesz will not yield to any form of pressure and will implement Hungarians’ wish that the country should be kept free of mass migration, a party spokesman said on Tuesday,

A “Soros report” condemning Hungary is being forced through in Brussels and further “lies are being spread about us” so that the government should accept mass migration without any resistance, Balázs Hidvéghi said.

The government will continue to resist all these attempts and protect the country under any circumstances, he added.

Proposed amendments to a report about Hungary by Dutch green-liberal MEP Judith Sargentini can be submitted until Tuesday and US financier George Soros’ allies in Brussels are now attacking Hungary with further lies, proposing the imposition of sanctions on it, he said. They want Hungary to become an immigrant country, against the wishes of the people, he added.

Soros’ allies want to get Brussels’ migration policy and the mandatory quota approved in accelerated proceedings, before the European Parliamentary elections of 2019, Hidvéghi said. They want to get the plan approved this summer and start the distribution of migrants across Europe, he added.

The “Soros report” currently in preparation is part of this attempt to pressurise Hungary; the EP LIBE committee will vote on it next month and the EP plenary in the autumn, he said.

In response to a question, Hidvéghi said the planned amendment to Hungary’s constitution and the “Stop Soros” bill would help protect the country and increase its security.

Asked about the planned move of the Open Society Foundation’s Budapest office to Berlin, he said “they are fleeing from transparency” because they do not want Hungarians to know what money is being used to finance it. However, its exit will be only a “facade”. The foundation will not stop its operation in Hungary, and will continue to exercise pressure to promote migration, he added.

Why is George Soros entering the cryptocurrency market? – Opinion

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Despite its brittle nature at the moment, it would appear that Hungarian billionaire George Soros has had a change of heart following his comments in January that cryptocurrency was nothing more than a bubble. Jordan Belfort also believes they are in a bubble and people who got in early got lucky, similar to those who invested early in penny stocks such as Monster Energy before it went big.

Despite Bitcoin having a volatile track record, it is still dividing opinion within the financial markets. Although many are keen to invest in Bitcoin, many are worried about the lack of security, overnight a cryptocurrency could drop 50% based on overaction to a news story.

It was Adam Fisher, who oversees the global macroeconomic investing for Soros Fund Management who was given internal approval to trade in cryptocurrency. Although this may seem surprising in the light of the comments made by Soros himself in January 2018, it is believed that George Soros is no longer involved in the management aspects of the Soros Management Fund, so this could explain the contradiction.

There is other speculation that the comments were made to devalue the cryptocurrency. This may seem unfair, but within the world of economics, Soros is a force to be feared, and for good reason.

Back in 1992 when the United Kingdom left the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, Soros made a series of massive best against the GBP currency, which caused it to crash.

The reason for dropping out of the ERM was due to GBP straying too far from the exchange rate that was designed to stabilise European currencies before the introduction of the Euro. The Soros Fund Management had been building a $1.5 billion position to bet the price of sterling would fall, but this wasn’t the case until a paraphrased article was published in 1992, that stated the President of German Bundesbank, Helmut Schlesinger believed that sterling was a currency that was becoming more under pressure. The move went on to cost British taxpayers millions.

Future Stability

As well as the Soros Fund Management showing an interest in investing in Bitcoin, Venrock has also partnered with a cryptocurrency investment firm based in Brooklyn. With more institutional capital being made available, it is hoped that the Bitcoin market will be a more stable and sophisticated one.

The current state of the cryptocurrency market suggests that now would be the best time for the Soros Fund Management to make a trade in virtual currencies, given that markets have dropped dramatically since the December 2017 peak.

This would essentially mean that Soros Fund Management look to make a tidy profit should other investors follow suit. This can be attributed to Soros’s approach to investing, which he calls the reflexivity theory. The theory is based on two realities, the subjective and objective. The actions that result from each reality will affect how investors approach different markets, which also affects the prices within certain markets.

Essentially, this could mean that the cryptocurrency market is seen as more volatile than it is, purely based on perception. This means that investors potentially invest based on their perception of reality. Soros believes that markets are a diverted vision of reality as opposed to a snapshot of the facts, which can cause investors to act in different ways.

Although this wasn’t necessarily the case back in 1992, it does showcase the Soros Fund Management is well poised to take advantage of any difficulties seen within a currency market, even if that currency as dismissed some months prior.

Orbán: Migrants ‘should not get a single cent’ from EU budget – Interview

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview on Friday that he does not support a European Union budget that takes money away from farmers, research and development and regional development, and gives it to countries that take in migrants.

Speaking to public radio, Orbán said the EU budget negotiations were expected to take a long time and he noted that a joint budget for seven years must be unanimously agreed on.

“As long as Hungarians do not give the go-ahead, there’ll be no budget,” he said.

Migrants, he added, should not be given “a single cent” and the relevant support should be provided by member states from their own budget.

He added that he did not back curbing farm support.

Orbán to appoint three deputy PMs

Three deputy prime ministers will be appointed to the new government, Orbán said.

Interior Minister Sándor Pintér will be deputy prime minister in charge of a new centralised office that will also function as a unified intelligence service, and Mihály Varga will be deputy prime minister in charge of the national economy, he said. Zsolt Semjén will retain his post in a general capacity.

A new prime minister’s office in charge of policy enforcement will coordinate the work public administration state secretaries in other ministries.

The office will work together with the Government Control Office and the united intelligence service, Orbán said.

Meanwhile, Orbán also noted that a plan to amend the constitution to outlaw the relocation of migrants to Hungary will go ahead in the new government cycle.

Soros

The “Stop Soros” package of bills, which the government submitted before the April 8 election, is a related effort, he said.

“Soros’s shadow army should come out into the light,” Orbán said.

He said it was a “moral duty” to pass the anti-migration amendment that was not approved in 2016 because the opposition withheld its support.

Orbán said migration was not a matter of human rights but an issue of national security. Those in the government who handle migration issues should have access to the tools of national security, he said.

Non-Hungarian citizens who support illegal migration will be filtered out from the country, he said, referring to the “Stop Soros” bill.

Christian Democratic ideology

Orbán said the government’s goals had not changed and it would continue to protect Hungarian and Christian culture and it would not allow the country to be transferred to foreigners. It will work towards the goal of full employment, requiring a well-functioning economy, lower taxes and higher wages. In addition, families with children will carry on getting the support while the value of pensions will be maintained and raised if possible, he said.

Orbán said his government adhered to a Christian Democratic ideology.

“We are not building a liberal democracy but a Christian democracy in which human dignity comes first, the powers are separated, freedom is an absolute value, families are supported, global ideologies are rejected, there is faith in the importance of the nation, the government fights for full employment, the equality of women is respected and developments that lead to rising levels of anti-Semitism are prevented.”

Orbán said he regretted that his Fidesz party had won 133 rather than 134 seats in parliament. “As far as I can see the Kúria [Hungary’s supreme court] has stripped us of one mandate”, he said, referring to the Constitutional Court’s criticism on Thursday of the Kuria for declaring over 4,000 votes for the ruling parties invalid. He said, however, that “it has to be accepted” and noted that under Hungarian law there was no legal remedy against the Kúria’s decision. He also noted that the final result of the election would be announced later on Friday.

The prime minister said he could not envisage any “extraordinary development” in the near future that would “sap his energies from managing the government”. He said he would be in a position to “define important and concrete tasks and get them implemented”.

European budget

Concerning the European budget, Orbán said he would not support “one which would cut funds for farmers, research and development or regional development, and re-channel those funds to countries which have accommodated migrants”.

Orbán said the EU budget negotiations were expected to take a long time and he noted that a joint budget for seven years must be unanimously agreed on. “As long as Hungarians do not give the go-ahead, there’ll be no budget,” he said.

Migrants, he added, should not be given “a single cent” and the relevant support should be provided by member states from their own budget.

Neither Hungary not central Europe have anything to fear from any dispute over the rule of law or the budget, he said, adding that Hungary could be “particularly calm” because it had been completely assessed in 2013 from the point of view of the rule of law, “and we have it on paper that all is well”.

EP election

Referring to the impending European Parliament (EP) election and his related talks with the European People’s Party, Orbán said the main topic of the election “can be nothing other than migration”, and only the Hungarians had so far had the opportunity to express their views on the matter.

The EP election will therefore be a “big referendum” on migration,

he said, adding that he had offered his personal contribuition as well as that of the ruling Fidesz party to a major people’s party campaign. Orbán declared that the EPP was not the largest party in the European Parliament. “That label belongs to Soros.”

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Fidesz elects Máte Kocsis parliamentary group leader

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Ruling Fidesz lawmakers have elected Máté Kocsis leader of their parliamentary group in a unanimous vote, Gergely Gulyás, the outgoing group leader and incoming government office chief, said in Budapest on Thursday.

Kocsis told a news conference that Fidesz planned to amend the constitution with a view to outlawing the relocation of migrants to Hungary.

He added that the proposal to make the relevant change to the fundamental law had failed in 2016 “due to Jobbik’s turncoat policy”, and it should be resubmitted to parliament.

Kocsis said that

parliamentary discussions on the “Stop Soros” package of laws on penalising NGOs that aid migration would carry on.

Meanwhile, he said the government’s goals remained unchanged: preserve Christian culture, protect the external borders, achieve full employment and continue the government’s family support policies.

Gulyás said that

the group has nominated László Kövér for another term as Speaker of Parliament.

Fidesz has nominated Sándor Lezsák and István Jakab as deputy speakers, and KDNP’s nominee is János Latorcai, he said.

Csaba Hende is to head the legislative committee which is tied to the post of deputy House speaker.

Referring to a Jobbik plan to dismantle a cordon to be erected around the square in front of Parliament on the day of the house’s inaugural meeting, Gulyás said that by now Jobbik should have come to terms with its election defeat and act accordingly.

Asked about Fidesz’s action in 2007 to tear down the fence in Kossuth Square, he said the square at that point had been cordoned off for months. “Now it is a matter of no one disturbing the inaugural session,” he said.

Gulyás also said the goal was to pass next year’s budget before parliament went to its summer break, which he said could be at the end of July.

As we wrote today, the strongest opposition party, Jobbik has set up its parliamentary group and elected Márton Gyongyösi as its group leader at a meeting.

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Hungarian foreign minister: Austrian president ‘siding’ with Soros, migrants

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The president of Austria has “taken sides with George Soros and the migrants”, Péter Szijjártó, the Hungarian foreign minister, told MTI on Sunday.

Szijjártó responded to recent remarks by Alexander Van der Bellen, who had referred to US financier Soros in a recent interview as a philanthropist who has donated huge sums to education and civil organisations promoting democracy, and suggested that

Austria should support the policies of France rather than the Visegrad Group, which “does not offer anything exciting for Europe”.

In his interview to Profil weekly, Van der Bellen also suggested that Europe’s demographic issues could be resolved through accommodating migrants, but added that increased focus should be paid to their integration or else “the problem could backfire” in 10-20 years. Settlers need to be provided education and jobs, as well as services for children, the paper quoted the Austrian president as saying.

Szijjártó said in reaction that Van der Bellen was “wrong” because Soros “represents migrants and especially his own interests rather than Europeans”. Soros is a “speculator” who would “leave migrants, chaos, and destruction behind”.

“The Hungarian government wishes to build on Hungarian families living in peace and security rather than on migrants,” Szijjártó insisted.

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Foreign ministry slams former US State Dept official for ‘insulting’ Hungarians

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A foreign ministry official on Monday said it was “unbelievable” that Thomas O. Melia, a former deputy assistant secretary of state at the US State Department, had “insulted” the Hungarian people.

In comments to the daily Népszava, Melia said it was uncertain how long Hungary’s NATO allies would be willing to share crucial military secrets “with a Hungary that nurtures increasingly close ties with Putin’s increasingly aggressive Russia”.

“I don’t understand how Hungarians can tolerate this after what Russia did to Hungary during the years of communism. Has historical memory been lost?”

In a statement, deputy state secretary Tamás Menczer said: “Thomas O. Melia is [US billionaire] George Soros‘s failed man who had had to leave the US State Department. It’s unbelievable that he praises Soros but insults the Hungarian people.”

Hungarian government: Case of Bangladeshi asylum seekers ‘Trojan horse’ to dismantle EU law

The lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concerning Hungary’s deportation of two Bangladeshi asylum seekers is a “Trojan horse” used by “international pro-migration forces” to dismantle regulation designed to protect Europe, a justice ministry official told daily Magyar Idők on Monday.

The lawsuit is the new method of US billionaire George Soros and his network to undo the European legal system, state secretary Pál Völner said. They have realised that certain national governments are preventing them from settling hundreds of thousands of migrants in Europe, he said. If legal order is dismantled, a migration wave stronger than any so far may hit Europe, Völner warned.

Last year the ECtHR said that Hungary had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by detaining the two asylum seekers in the Röszke transit zone near Hungary’s southern border. The court also said that authorities later sent them back to Serbia, which the ECtHR said had put them under the risk of facing inhumane treatment in the Greek refugee reception centres.

The court ordered Hungary to pay the asylum seekers 10,000 euros each in compensation.

In addition, the state was ordered to pay 7,500 euros in legal fees to the Helsinki Committee, which had taken on their legal representation. Hungary appealed the ruling.

The procedure before the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR started last Wednesday. A ruling is expected within a year.

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Open Society Foundations to hold off decision on future in Hungary until ‘Stop Soros’ law passed

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US financier George Soros’s Open Society Foundations will hold off their decision on whether or not to leave Hungary until the government’s planned law on NGOs is passed, an OSF spokesman told Reuters on Friday.

“We are in the process of thinking, of planning, weighing our options,” Csaba Csontos was quoted as saying. “The government has committed to passing the Stop Soros law… It will be a symbolic step which serves to stifle non-government groups,” he said.

“At this moment we need to think about how that might affect us who support them, and how we might proceed.”

Reuters said Csontos declined to confirm reports that OSF was leaving Budapest for Berlin.

In the wake of reports that OSF are leaving Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in his regular Friday interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, said: “Listeners will perhaps understand if I don’t shed crocodile tears.” At the same time, Orbán said he expected conflicts to continue with Soros organisations, even if OSF left Hungary.

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Orbán: Soros and the Open Society Foundations are crashing out

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In the wake of a report that the Open Society Foundations (OSF) are leaving Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in his regular Friday interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, said “they are crashing out right now”.

In a statement after Austrian daily Die Presse said that the OSF, funded by US billionaire George Soros, was planning to close its Budapest office and move to Berlin this summer, the OSF released a statement qualifying the report, saying it was “closely watching developments around the draft legislation that would dramatically restrict the activities of civil society in Hungary”.

Asked about the Die Presse report, Orbán said: “Listeners will perhaps understand if I don’t cry crocodile tears.”

At the same time, Orbán said he expected conflicts to continue with Soros organisations, even if the OSF left Hungary.

“I know they won’t accept the outcome of the election; they will organise all sorts and they have unlimited financial means,” he said, referring to organisations financed by billionaire George Soros.

Referring to a list of “members of the Soros network” published by the weekly Figyelő last week, Orbán said transparency was at the heart of European policy and the press should continue to “help people to know the truth” and uncover “as many networks and cooperation as possible”. If they do not shy away from accepting money from abroad, they should not shy away from admitting to it, he added.

Orbán said his job was to defend Hungary against speculators.

He also said the most important issue of the next decade would be immigration. “It is a moral obligation to talk about it, and the message must get into every household a hundred times, and if need be a thousand times.”

Of the UN migration package proposal published earlier in the month, Orbán said Hungarians see migration as “a bad thing” to be curbed rather than encouraged. Everyone should be supported in making a living in their own homeland, he said. European civilisation, which is rooted in Christianity, must be protected, he said.

The prime minister said the European Union, which is to vote on migration rules in June, undermined the principles of democracy by attempting to cement decisions on migration policy a year before the EP elections. This, he insisted, would force the hand of the newly elected officials, he said.

Speaking of the results of the April 8 general election, Orbán said he was “happy and glad” to know that about 650,000 more had voted for the ruling alliance than in 2014, and 336,000 more than the supporters of all opposition parties combined.

Fidesz-KDNP has won everywhere, from the villages to the capital, he said.

Orbán pledged to serve all Hungarians. Those who did not vote for Fidesz-KDNP are also members of the Hungarian nation, he said.

All are free to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and association, Orbán said, referring to demonstrations since the election. He asked the demonstrators to protest peacefully.

Regarding those requesting a recount of the votes, Orbán said: “This is like winning 4:0 and then the opponent wants a recount. The match is over.”

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Orbán radio interview: PM’s office to be revamped, Soros ‘crashing out’

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in his regular Friday interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio, said he planned to reorganise the Prime Minister’s Office when the new government is formed.

He also said that Mihály Varga, the economy minister, will stay as head of the economic cabinet.

Orbán said he wanted to transform the government’s “brain center” and create a different management structure.

“Serious negotiations” are under way and will continue over the weekend, he added.

He said he wanted the government to be formed as soon as possible.

Orbán said, however, there were no plans to set up new ministries. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” he said. It’s worth keeping the current system with large ministries headed by high-powered officials, he added.

The new government will have “some of the same people” while keeping the “old targets unchanged”, he said. “The people voted to preserve the government’s targets” not for continuity in terms of personnel, he added.

The prime minister said that, like in past years, parliament should pass next year’s budget before the summer break. He said he had already held talks about this with Varga, whom he described as “an extremely talented and experienced minister”.

Commenting on demographics and family support, Orbán said he wanted to sign a comprehensive agreement on the outlook the government can offer to Hungarian women for the next 20-30 years. “Demographics depend on them; it is their decision,” he said. Having children is a highly personal issue but one that is important to the community, he added. The job of the government is to listen and understand women if they want to have children, Orbán said.

Commenting on the outcome of the general election, he said voters had underlined their support for the government’s essential targets such as economic growth coupled with fiscal rectitude, full employment, support for families, preserving the value of pensions and guaranteeing security by “not yielding to Europe in immigration policy and maintaining Hungary as a Hungarian country”.

In the wake of a report that the Open Society Foundations are leaving Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said “they are crashing out right now”.

“I know they won’t accept the outcome of the election; they will organise all sorts and they have unlimited financial means,” he said, referring to organisations financed by billionaire George Soros.

Orbán said his job was to defend Hungary against speculators.

He also said the most important issue of the next decade would be immigration. “It is a moral obligation to talk about it and the message must get into every household a hundred times, and if need be a thousand times.”

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George Soros’s Open Society Foundations closes Budapest office

Open Society Foundations, funded by US billionaire George Soros, is closing its Budapest office and plans to open a new office in Berlin this summer, the Austrian Press Agency (APA) said on Thursday citing a report by Austrian daily Die Presse.

Die Presse said that OSF President Patrick Gaspard had announced the decision in Budapest.

OSF, which also has an office in Vienna, declined to give a reason for the decision.

APA said Soros apparently yields to the pressure of Hungary’s Orbán government which has been campaigning against him.

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Fidesz spokesperson slams ‘pro-migration Soros organisation’ after court ruling

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The Hungarian Helsinki Committee NGO is a “pro-migration Soros organisation”, Fidesz spokesman János Halász said on Thursday after a court said Halász did not bear personal responsibility for defaming the NGO but ordered the ruling party to pay a fine of 400,000 forints (EUR 1,300) and issue a public apology for claiming the organisation had operated in an unlawful and non-transparent manner.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee said in a statement that the Metropolitan Court agreed with its complaint that Fidesz’s claims about the committee were false but Halász’s personal responsibility had not been established. The court said Halász was simply doing his job when he voiced the party’s position.

Responding to the ruling, Halász told public media that the Hungarian Helsinki Committee was financed by US billionaire George Soros and served his aims. The NGO “is involved in the migrant business up to its jugular” and represents the interests of migrants in court procedures, such as in the case of two Bangladeshi migrants demanding millions in compensation from the Hungarian state, he added.

The committee regularly files complaints about Hungary in Brussels and at the United Nations,

it cooperates in the preparation of reports written in Brussels condemning Hungary, and refuses to accept the outcome of the April 8 general election, Halász said.

It is because of such “pro-migrant organisations threatening national security” that the new parliament to be formed in May should include the “Stop Soros” package of laws on its agenda as soon as possible, he added.

The NGO sued after Halász told a press conference last April that the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and other NGOs had colluded to withhold information in the public interest requested by the daily Magyar Hírlap. At the time, he said: “These Soros organisations are secretive about their assets and the people they finance” and he claimed the Hungarian Helsinki Committee had broken the law.

Election 2018 – Cabinet chief: Hungary will not budge on migration

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Hungary will stand by the decision voters made on April 8 and will not budge one iota on its migration policy, cabinet chief Antal Rogán told news portal pestisracok.hu in an interview on Thursday.

Rogán said international attacks on Hungary’s migration policy “aren’t even particularly aimed at us”, but were part of a European debate about whether or not Europe would remain European or become a “continent of immigrants” with a mixed population. This is also what next year’s European Parliamentary elections will be about, Rogán said, adding that Europeans wanted the European Commission to come out in support of strong European borders instead of backing “the import of immigrants”.

“With the stakes this high, it is obvious that [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán is a gigantic plank in the eyes of billionaires like [George] Soros and politicians promoting migration,” Rogán said. “They want to discredit us and the other governments opposed to migration as quickly as possible,” he insisted.

Asked about last Saturday’s anti-government demonstration,

Rogán called it “extremely funny” that “certain people can chant that there’s no freedom of speech or democracy when they themselves are proving the opposite of this”.

“If I remember correctly, when we went out to demonstrate in 2006, we were beaten up badly and no one protested against that in Europe,” he said, referring to the events of the autumn of that year, when anti-government protests regularly turned violent, leading to clashes between protestors and police. “No one was worried for Hungarian democracy.”

Rogán said it was “completely normal” for those “who had hoped for a different result” in an election to voice their opinions and demonstrate. “What I have a problem with is that the protesters are being riled up from abroad [by those] with ulterior motives,” the cabinet chief said. “This goes against democracy and is completely unacceptable.”

On another subject, Rogán said that it was not businessman Lajos Simicska who had “ruined” Jobbik or the daily Magyar Nemzet, which was closed down by Simicska last week, but rather “the Jobbik leaders and journalists who joined forces with him at their own free will and accepted his money in return for carrying out his instructions”.

Government Spokesperson: Soros is not prepared to accept the result of the Hungarian election

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“The events of recent days have made it crystal clear that George Soros is not prepared to accept the result of the Hungary parliamentary election”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács told reporters in Budapest on Tuesday.

The Government Spokesperson stressed that George Soros is continuing the negotiations aimed at calling into question the outcome of the Hungarian election and collecting allies against the democratically elected Hungarian Government and majority. As an example, he mentioned the fact that on Monday the billionaire met with Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans, who in Mr Kovács’s opinion holds negotiations with George Soros and his organisations much more often than with true civil society organisations.

“It is totally obvious that Timmermans is one of Soros’s people”, the Government Spokesperson declared, highlighting the fact that the Vice President of the European Commission is committed to practicing pro-immigration politics aimed at breaking Hungary and other countries that are resisting pro-immigration policies.

He stressed that the activities of the Soros empire include the fact that

in recent days George Soros’s son, purportedly in the name of democracy, has urged people in Hungary to hold protests against democracy and against the results of the democratic elections.

“Based on this, it is absolutely obvious what we can count on from representatives and organisations of the Soros empire: they will try to break Hungary and attempt to make the country give up its anti-immigration standpoint, and force onto it a permanent distribution mechanism that would force tens of thousands of immigrants onto member states. This solution was prepared by EU institutions last June via the so-called Dublin IV reforms”, he said.

“However, the Hungarian Government totally rejects this and will be resisting it using all possible means in view of the fact that at last week’s elections it received a mandate from the people of Hungary that cannot be called into question either within the European Union or by NGOs”, he stressed. “The election clearly defined the path along which Hungary must travel in the fight against migration, Mr. Kovács confirmed.

The Government Spokesperson also pointed out that

last week the LIBE committee adopted the draft report that will be attempting to condemn Hungary in the European Parliament using trumped-up charges in the interests of breaking Hungary’s anti-immigration stance.

In reply to a question, Mr. Kovács said the fact that the members of the European Commission has received George Soros in the manner reserved for democratically elected heads of government and state leaders on several occasions in recent years was extremely telling, and that these meeting are held are only seemingly public because we know nothing of what was stated during these talks. “However, the results of these negotiations are regularly mirrored in certain reports and in documents that are aimed at condemning Hungary”, the Government Spokesperson explained, noting that the Hungarian Government is continuously calling on the members of the Commission to make public the true content of these conversation.

Soros at talks in Brussels to get Hungary punished, says Hungarian FM in Luxembourg

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US billionaire George Soros is at talks in Brussels in order to get Hungary and the Hungarian people punished because they voted for ruling Fidesz, which rejects immigration, instead of his candidates at the recent general election, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Monday.

Although Soros’s candidates suffered a defeat in the April 8 election, he ignores the outcome of the vote, Szijjártó told a press conference during an intermission of a European Union ministerial meeting in Luxembourg.

Hungarians voted in support of a government that gives priority to their interests and refuses to yield to international pressure to focus on migrants’ rights and encourage migration, the minister said.

On the topic of a draft report on Hungary presented last week by the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee, Szijjártó said:

“The Hungarian people don’t need to be protected from the decisions of the Hungarian people.”

Hungarians have made a clear decision, declaring that Hungary needed to be protected from migration and as well as “the international policy which, instead of aiming to stop it, continuously encourages migration”, he said.

Only the Hungarian government is authorised to represent the Hungarian people, Szijjártó said. This means that neither the EP’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), Soros, Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission, whom Soros is meeting on Monday, nor NGOs are authorised to represent them, he added.

As regards the regular meetings between Soros and Timmermans, the minister noted that

“they are both extremely pro-migration” and “committed enemies of the Hungarian government and Hungary’s migration policy”.

Szijjártó also noted that according to the EC, among the aims of the talks between Soros and Timmermans is finding a way to keep the EU together.

“It’s interesting how the first vice-president of the European Commission needs advice from an international speculator concerning the unity of Europe,” he added.

Photo: MTI/Európai Tanács/Mario Salerno

The Embassy of the US condemns the listing of ’Soros’s Hungarian agents’

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Government close Figyelő published the names of those people who they suspect to work for so-called ‘Soros organisations.’ On the list, one can find all the lecturers of the Central European University, employees of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Amnesty International, Transparency International or the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. According to hvg.hu, the Embassy of the US condemned the listing on Twitter.

PM Orbán promised retribution after the election

“We are gentle and jolly people, but we are neither blind nor dupes.

After the elections, we will, of course, get our retribution; moral, political and legal retribution, too.”

– said PM Orbán in his speech on the national celebration of March 15th. However, he added that his supporters should concentrate on retribution only after the elections.

Many considered the above sentences as

a threat towards those who do not support the government’s agenda – e.g. opposition parties.

However, government officials said that it was the result of the election that was meant as moral and political retribution. Furthermore, legal retribution is aimed at the slanderous assertions said during the campaign, which will be followed by legal processes – according to Gergely Gulyás, vice-president of the Hungarian National Assembly.

However, according to hvg.hu, the harassment of NGOs reached a new level in the government-close media. In fact, Figyelő

published the names of those employees who work for institutions the government regards as Soros organizations.

The Embassy of the US condemned Figyelő’s list

Referring to a record PM Orbán said before that 2,000 people work for the Soros-network in Hungary and he knows all of them by name. However, the list published now is much shorter though according to hvg.hu, this is only the start.

The list contains the lecturers of the Central European University, employees of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Amnesty International, Transparency International, Eötvös Károly Institute and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. Furthermore, people are working for K-Monitor and Direkt36, both news portals investigating corruption scandals. Besides they included an organisation helping migrants (MENEDÉK), the Romaversitas Foundation helping Romas, Márton Gulyás and András Siewert.

However, 24.hu and Mérce detected that

Figyelő included already dead people, as well.

According to hvg.hu, the Embassy of the US condemned the list in a tweet. They wrote:

Civil society = ordinary citizens working to make their country a better place.  The United States condemns #Figyelo’s attempt to intimidate these citizens. @hetilap #westandwithcivilsociety #IstandwithCEU

Hungarian government: Saturday demonstration organised with Soros’s money

Disappointed with election results, demonstrators protest in Budapest, photo: MTI

The demonstration in Budapest on Saturday was not any grassroots initiative but was organised by the “Soros network” with the money of (US billionaire) George Soros, cabinet chief Antal Rogán said on public radio on Sunday.

As we wrote, Demonstrators dissatisfied with last week’s general election results protested in the capital on Saturday afternoon, calling for a new “honest” election. More details, photos and videos HERE.

Soros is the one who can’t accept last week’s election results, Rogán said on Kossuth Radio.

He said the opposition parties also had, in reality, nothing to do with the events on Saturday, suggesting they, too, are puppets.

If somebody can’t accept the results of the election, they have a right to express their opinion and disagree, Rogán said. However, such a big and convincing majority has never taken a decision till now, he added, referring to a sweeping victory by the Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance in the general election a week earlier.

“I know that the opposition parties find this hard to accept,” Rogán said.

“Those shouting about fraud haven’t uncovered any errors that they could protest or bring to the election committees. This is nothing more than a political flea circus,” he added.

There were no more election appeals made now than there were four or eight years ago, Rogan said.

Hungary’s government has been given a strong mandate to counter the efforts of the European Union, the United Nations and George Soros, he added.

Hungarian people clearly want Hungary to stay Hungarian, while George Soros wanted to rig the election by supporting the opposition parties and “organisations that call themselves civil organisations”, Rogán said.

He noted that Soros’s organisations have almost 16 billion dollars at their disposal.

Photo: MTI