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Government spokesperson claims that the LIBE report was drawn up ‘by the Soros empire’

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The draft report on Hungary presented on Thursday by the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee is authored by people “with strong ties to the Soros empire”, Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács has said.

Last spring, the EP’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) was asked to prepare a report on Hungary with a view to holding an EP vote on launching the first steps of Article 7, which suspends voting rights.

Presenting the report in a session of the committee in Brussels, green MEP Judith Sargentini said there was a “clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values of the European Union”, which she said warranted launching the Article 7 procedure.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Kovács said the report aimed to achieve “what they couldn’t at the national election,” which was to break the government’s categorical rejection of a mandatory resettlement quota and turn Hungary into an “immigrant county”.

Kovács called the procedure a “political witch hunt”,

adding that Hungary had not been invited to the EP session and had even been denied access when the foreign minister requested to be present.

He said the government would do everything in its power to thwart the report, arguing that Fidesz’s resounding victory at the April 8 election had given it a mandate to do so.

Commenting on the report, leftist Democratic Coalition MEP Péter Niedermüller told the press on Friday that it was a “last warning” to the Hungarian government, which he said would have to brace for “long, intense and very critical” negotiations with the EU over the coming years.

A growing number of politicians think that Hungary should face an EU procedure if it does not comply with EU values, Niedermüller said.

Hungary cannot be a part of the bloc while denying the values and norms it is based on, he said.

The draft report does not discuss the Hungarian election or question its outcome, nor does it try to interfere with the country’s internal politics, Niedermüller said. It merely lists “problems pertaining to the rule of law that the Hungarian government has created in recent years”, he said.

Election 2018 – Former Socialist-Párbeszéd candidate Karácsony accuses government of listing so-called opponents

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No matter the size of Fidesz’s mandate, the ruling party is not authorised to intimidate its citizens, Gergely Karácsony, former PM candidate of the Socialist-Párbeszéd alliance, said on Thursday in reaction to business weekly Figyelő’s list of people whom it called “George Soros’s mercenaries”.

Figyelő “has stupidly listed citizens who do their jobs as members of civil groups, aren’t the enemies of anyone, except maybe poverty, corruption and riding roughshod over democracy”, Karácsony told a news conference.

He said anyone who saw such people as enemies proved that their real enemy was the “the desire of citizens to make the country better”.

Karácsony said that in the run-up to Hungary’s general election, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had threatened the people and political parties who wanted change and had “talked about the 2,000 enemies of the Orbán regime“.

He said the Socialist-Párbeszéd alliance would use any political means it could to “put an end to the politics of intimidation“.

The former PM candidate called it a “strange twist of history” that the list had been published in a magazine owned by Maria Schmidt, director of the House of Terror Museum. That museum was established to present the horrors of the 20th century so nobody in Hungary should ever again have to be afraid of being on a government list, Karácsony said.

On another subject, Socialist Party group leader Bertalan Tóth told the same news conference that there were “many signs of Fidesz having systemically manipulated the outcome of the election”. He said these included the current election rules, the registration of so-called “bogus parties”, the changes made in the ownership structures of media companies and the registration of voters with “fictitious addresses”.

As a result of the changes made to the election rules, Fidesz will have a two-thirds majority in parliament “while only one-third of voters voted for them”, he said.

Tóth accused the National Election Office (NVI) of “hacking” the election on Sunday, noting that the NVI had to revert to an older version of its website after its current one crashed in the morning. Running the older website had increased security risks, he said.

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Election 2018 – Hungarian FM: ‘Soros empire’ upping pressure on Hungary

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The Hungarian government will resist an expectedly growing international pressure in the wake of Hungary’s recent election, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday.

Ruling Fidesz’s election victory, one of “three landslide wins in eight years”, reflects “the strongest and clearest political will in Europe” expressed by Hungary’s voters, Szijjártó told reporters. The election made it clear “what future the government’s supporters voted for and what kind of future opponents wish to see”, he added.

“Brussels, however, continues to disregard the Hungarian people and their will,” Szijjártó insisted.

The European Parliament’s civil rights committee (LIBE) is scheduled to present “the Soros Report” on Hungary on Thursday, Szijjártó said. “It has taken Brussels just four days from the election to launch another attack on Hungary,” he added.

LIBE has been asked to prepare a report on the state of the rule of law in Hungary with a view to holding an EP vote on launching the first steps of Article 7, which suspends voting rights.

Szijjártó said that the Hungarian government had approached LIBE on Wednesday to present their position, but leaders of the committee refused to provide an opportunity, through which they had “unmasked themselves”, revealing a “seriously anti-democratic” procedure against Hungary.

The minister said that Hungary’s election campaign had seen “a number of open attempts to influence domestic affairs” but despite those efforts by the “Soros empire”, Hungary’s voters had “made a clear decision … and said no to a pro-immigration policy”.

An anti-immigration policy and protection of Hungary’s sovereignty will continue to be in the focus of the government’s policies “no matter what pressure is exerted or what attacks they may launch against us”, Szijjártó said.

Szijjártó was asked about the opposition’s suspicions of fraud at the recent election and he said that the “facts and figures are meaningful”: the ruling parties received 2.6 million votes while the runner-up one million. He suggested that the number of contested votes in “three-four-five” constituencies was negligible compared to the difference of 1.6 million votes. He insisted that those questioning the legitimacy of the election “disdain the Hungarian people’s democratically expressed will”.

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The decision is made – new CEU campus being opened in Vienna

Vienna signed an agreement recently with Central European University about establishing a new campus, as the Austrian news agency APA reported on Monday. According to the document, a historic building will be rented by CEU for 99 years. The private university established by George Soros also pledged to preserve the building in its current proper status. 

According to HVG, the last step of completing the contract will be a discussion with the cultural, science and sports committee of Vienna.

The rental contract between the city of Vienna and the CEU is planned to be concluded by the end of September. If everything proceeds as planned, the new campus will begin to operate in the term of 2022/23. However, an in-between version is also included in the contract, which would make it possible for the university unit to be opened 3 years earlier than planned.

CEU has announced in March that they are planning to create a third campus after the ones in Budapest and New York.

Michael Häupt was the mayor in office at that time in Vienna, who saw the “opportunity of the century” in the cooperation with the Central European University.

CEU’s chairman Michael Ignatieff pointed out that Vienna is one of the great global centres of education, commerce and international organisations.  He considered the new campus as a new perspective for the students and scholars of the Austrian capital. He stated that both the leadership of the university and the municipal of Vienna has great expectations about the cooperation.

He also added that though the campus in Vienna has been a big dream, they still consider Budapest as the true home of CEU.

As he claimed, they are enthusiastic about solving the long-term future of the campus in Budapest through the agreement between the state of New York and the Hungarian government. The university’s leaders hope that the government of Hungary signs the contract as soon as possible.

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Election 2018 – Fidesz spokesman: Government plans to pass ‘Stop Soros’ bill in May

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After a resounding victory in which the Fidesz-led alliance chalked up a 49 percent win on its national list in Sunday’s election, the party vowed to press ahead swiftly to crack down on civil organisations that help migrants and refugees.

The Fidesz parliamentary group’s spokesman said in an interview on Monday that the governing alliance, with a two-thirds majority, would be able to freely pass the “Stop Soros” bill, which seeks to curb the activities of pro-migration NGOs. Parliament, said János Halász, is expected to meet later in the month so the legislation can be wrapped up in May.

“No one is in any doubt: this is a question of sovereignty and the security of the country,” he said.

Commenting on Fidesz’s projected 133 seats which equate to a supermajority, Halász also said Fidesz had not counted on such a big win. “We are delighted with the result,” he told public broadcaster M1. “People realised that it was a fateful election…” Halász added.

“We must carry on working to fight against migration … but also life goes on, and we will work to make sure taxes fall and wages grow, too,” he said.

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told M1 on Monday that the Hungarian government would use its “unprecedented support” to guarantee the security of the Hungarian people.

The European Union can’t find a solution to the migration crisis and “Brussels [sees] the security of their own citizens as less than a top priority,” he said. The Visegrád countries, he added, have decided to continue discussing the United Nations’ migration pact and try to change it “from the insidme”, he said.

Meanwhile, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said Hungary’s electoral process and the ruling parties’ excessive resources undermined contestants’ ability to compete on an equal basis in Sunday’s general election. Voters had the option to choose from a number of candidates, but “intimidating and xenophobic rhetoric, media bias and opaque campaign financing” hindered real political debate, OSCE election monitor Douglas Wake told a press conference assessing the ballot.

Gergely Gulyás, group leader of ruling Fidesz, said in reaction that the OSCE had “overstepped its authority” with some of its findings.

“It’s not within the OSCE’s remit to express an opinion about the Hungarian election campaign, and wrangling with the ruling parties that oppose migration and voicing an opinion on the government’s campaign is especially uncalled for,” Gulyás told MTI. “Opposing immigration is not xenophobia but rather a life instinct,” he said.

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Election 2018 – Origo: Soros-funded activist group trying to ‘hack’ campaign with ads

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Commercial news portal Origo on Friday carried an article detailing how an online network of activists allegedly funded by US billionaire George Soros was attempting to “hack” Hungary’s general election by sidestepping campaign rules.

According to the pro-government portal, the group named Avaaz “is putting out a huge amount of paid internet ads for Soros’s opposition candidates”. Origo says “there is a suspicion that [the network] is trying to circumvent Hungary’s election rules by running political ads from outside Hungary.”

The article says Avaaz has interfered in several foreign elections, supporting “the pro-migration candidates” in all of them.

According to Origo, the network runs a new ad on Facebook and its Messenger app about ousting and uniting against ruling Fidesz every 20 minutes.

Avaaz has reportedly been active in the campaign since March.

Origo said Soros had helped set up Avaaz by donating 150,000 US dollars to it through his Open Society Foundations in 2006. In 2009, the network received another 300,000 dollars from “another Soros organisation”.

The article said the Avaaz “click movement” is present in 194 countries and is believed to have some 46 million members.

Soros ‘stuffed Naftogaz with own people’, says pro-government media

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George Soros has stuffed the management of Naftogaz, one of Ukraine’s biggest companies, with his own people, daily Magyar Idők said on Saturday.

The paper cites a recording of a recent conversation revealing ways the US financier used his influence in Ukraine to promote his own business interests.

The paper said an undercover reporter talked to Yevhen Bistritsky, a former leader of Ukraine’s Open Society Foundation, who cited a specific case to illustrate the ways in which Soros had gained influence in Ukraine.

“Naftogaz: this is a large energy company … we helped them transform the company … and we changed it,” the former Open Society official is cited as saying to the undercover reporter.

Naftogaz, one of Ukraine’s largest state-owned companies, is soon to be privatised. Earlier Forbes magazine said all the company’s managers owed their positions to Soros’s lobbying, the paper added.

Official Naftogaz documents show that Andrej Kobolyev, the company’s CEO, met Soros in London between November 1 and 4 last year to discuss the company’s privatisation, the paper said.

In addition to enforcing his own interests in Naftogaz, Soros is also busy attacking the company’s rivals in Ukraine, the paper said, using Transparency International as well as the Anticorruption Action Centre, two organisations he financially supports.

To promote these ends, Soros NGOs have attacked Burisma, a privately owned company, alleging corruption through social media and propaganda channels “as they usually do whenever Soros wants to get something or wants to destroy someone or something,” Magyar Idők said.

Election 2018 – DK: Orbán politically blacklisting NGO employees

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The opposition Democratic Coalition has accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of politically blacklisting 2,000 employees of NGOs whom Orbán, in a radio interview on Friday, accused of working to overthrow the government.

In his interview to Kossuth Radio, Orbán said George Soros paid NGO activists to serve the goals of the US financier’s “empire” by organising migration and “eliminating the foundations on which Christian nations and a Christian Europe are based”. These NGOs, Orbán added, attacked anti-immigration governments under pressure from Brussels, and then they influence the election to ensure their pro-migration goals are represented in parliament with the ultimate goal of serving the business interests of Soros. He said this was the reason for the government’s “Stop Soros” bill.

DK spokesman Zsolt Gréczy told a press conference today that Orbán had spoken like “a dictator”.

The DK spokesman said Orbán had shown in his interview that he was either “a crooked villain or finally off his rocker”. The DK spokesman insisted: “There are no Soros agents.” Orbán political opponents do not number 2,000 but 6 million, he added.

If the prime minister makes good on his threat to crack down on the NGOs in question, then DK will give political and legal protection to the people and organisations involved, Gréczy said.

Meanwhile, asked about comments made in an interview by Gergely Karácsony, the prime ministerial candidate of the Socialist-Párbeszéd alliance, that ministers of the pre-2010 governments would not be asked into a cabinet which he led, Gréczy said the coalition talks would determine who would end up as ministers as well as who would be asked to head the government.

“There were several excellent ministers in Hungary before 2010, many of whom currently play an important role in the Socialist Party,” he said.

Balázs Hidvéghi, the ruling Fidesz party’s communications director, said the opposition had “jumped at the first chance” to defend “Soros’s people and his entire network”.

Hidveghi told public media: “It’s clear from the opposition’s fierce reaction that the shouting comes from those whose house is burning”.

“It is quite clear that more than 2,000 people in Hungary are working against Viktor Orbán and Hungary in order to weaken the anti-immigration national government,” he said, citing Tracie Ahern, the former chief executive of Soros Fund Management. Soros wants to replace Fidesz with a pliant government that would turn Hungary into an immigration country, he said.

Election 2018 – Orbán makes final appeal to voters

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in an interview to public radio on Friday, appealed to voters to cast their vote to decide not only the next government but whether Hungary remained a sovereign power or operated under an “internationalist government established by George Soros”; in which case Hungary would become “a country of immigrants”.

The governing parties, he said, addressed the single issue that was central to the country’s fate, namely migration. “Progress is made in vain if migration saps the country of its benefits,” the prime minister said.

The opposition parties, however, fail to speak to this issue because “they are under international censorship,” he said.

Orbán referred to audio recordings which he said revealed the mechanisms by which Soros money was paid for the recruitment of NGO activists to serve the goals of the US financier’s “empire”; among them, organising migration and “eliminating the foundations on which Christian nations and a Christian Europe are based”.

These NGOs attack anti-immigration governments under pressure from Brussels, and then they influence the election to ensure their pro-migration goals are represented in parliament, he said. The country is then transformed with a view to feeding the business interests of Soros, he said, adding that this is the reason for the government’s “Stop Soros” bill.

Orbán said “Brussels bureaucrats” would decide on the new European migration relocation system in June, under the Bulgarian EU presidency, and voters must elect a government that is capable of defending Hungary’s interests and protecting the country from the EU plan.

If a future government accepted this proposal, Hungary would have to immediately accept more than 10,000 migrants and pay each of them “9 million forints for their upkeep”.

Summoning the occasion of his Good Friday interview, Orbán said that culturally, a Christian Europe was “like air which is all around us; our home in which we feel at home in Christian Europe and Christian Hungary”. The political issue now is “whether we can preserve our way of life or succumb to outside influences which foist change upon us”.

Young people in western Europe must prepare for a life in which they may lose Christian Europe and become a minority in their own lands, Orbán said, adding that the crux of the debate over the future of Europe was the answer different European nations gave: some say an open society is the answer and others, such those in central Europe, want to protect life as it is.

He said it was hard to convince western European leaders on this point because they lived different lives from average citizens: they did not have to travel on the underground and there were no no-go zones in their neighbourhoods, so their quality of life was not directly affected by migration.

Meanwhile, Orbán also promised extra savings on winter utility bills following a government decision to spread the benefits of the scheme.

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‘Soros network’ attempts to influence EU reports on Hungary, says minister Lázár

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In addition to their efforts to influence decisions in Hungary, members of the “Soros network” also regularly try to interfere in the European Union’s compilation of reports and formation of official positions on Hungary and Poland, the government office chief said on Wednesday.

US financier George Soros employs some 2,000 activists whose job is to interfere in Hungary’s domestic political decision-making process, János Lázár told a press briefing after a cabinet meeting.

And Soros’s Brussels office attempts to interfere in the EU’s drafting of reports on Hungary and Poland with “various written recommendations”, Lázár added.

He said that after the April 8 election, the government should “review these processes” from a national security standpoint. The government should also bring to the EU’s attention that the organisations in question are interfering in the European Commission’s decision-making process, which he said hurts the commission’s transparency.

In light of these practices, the government still considers it crucial that parliament pass the “Stop Soros” bill, Lázár said.

He said that at the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had briefed the cabinet on last week’s European Council summit. Lázár quoted Orbán as having said that Hungary would no longer support the Bulgarian EU presidency’s border protection proposal, as it focuses too much on the redistribution of migrants across the bloc.

Further, the government reaffirmed Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó’s mandate to continue to oppose the United Nations’ migration package. Lázár repeated the government’s position that

Hungary will not back the UN’s stance on migration until its 12-point proposal concerning the draft package is approved.

On the topic of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain, Lázár said Orbán last week in Brussels had recommended recalling the EU’s permanent representative in Moscow for consultations. The government office chief did not elaborate on Hungary’s decision to expel a Russian diplomat over allegations that Russia was behind the murder attempt.

Concerning the government’s plans, Lázár said the government was looking at ways to implement its winter utility bill cuts in towns with no district heating. He said there were some 300 municipalities like this in Hungary. The government will make a decision on how to support residents in such towns and villages over the coming days, he said. Lázár noted that the scheme will benefit some 3.4 million households.

On another subject, Lázár said

the government would propose legislation to prevent construction of buildings higher than 65 metres in Hungary.

He argued that the city scape could be affected by buildings higher than St. Stephen’s Basilica, currently the tallest building on the Pest side. He noted that some recent construction proposals were aimed at building 120 metre tall structures, which he said were “jeopardising” the sight. He said that the government was “even ready to pay compensation” to parties involved in those projects to resolve the situation. The bill, if Hungary’s next parliament passes it into law, could take effect on June 30, Lázár added.

The government office chief was asked about press reports which suggested that a member of an international criminal organisation as well as another person linked to Syria’s dictatorship have bought residency bonds in Hungary. Lázár said that participants in the bond programme had been screened, adding that “no violation, mistake or negligence” has been reported. He went on to say that those claiming that there is a security risk “are supporting people who had attacked Hungarian police at Röszke (border station)”. He also added that it was not up to government members to determine whether an applicant posed a security risk.

The minister was also asked about an interview, in which a former contact person to the fans of Ferencváros football team had claimed that he had received instructions to prevent a representative of the Socialist Party from submitting a referendum initiative. Lázár called the story “surrealistic” and rejected the assumption that his Fidesz party should have issued any such instruction. He added he would not comment on remarks made by someone “stoned or drunk”.

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Election 2018 – Orbán: Migration number one issue

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The number one issue at stake in the April general election is whether Hungary will become an “immigrant country” and whether security and European culture and way of life can be preserved, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Sunday.

In an interview to public radio Kossuth, Orbán said that the rise in the threat of terrorism and the deterioration of public safety were linked to migration. He said it was “unacceptable” that migration was threatening equality for women, which he called “one of the cornerstones of European culture”.

Hungary believes that the continent is full, the borders must be protected and migrants should be kept out of Europe, Orbán said. If illegal migration is brought to an end, there will not be any migrants to distribute and the European Union would also rid itself of migrant quotas, the prime minister added.

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Brussels wanted to spend a significant portion of EU funds on migrants and under one EU proposal, Hungary would have to take in 10,000 migrants in the first round of their distribution.

The 9 million forints’ (EUR 28,700) worth of financial aid Hungary would be required to distribute per migrant as part of this scheme would spoil the country’s economic achievements, he said. He argued that it was not just for cultural reasons that migrants should not be distributed among EU member states, but also because hosting migrants would be beyond the countries’ economic capacities.

On another subject, Orbán called the result of the recent Italian general election an “important development”, arguing that it meant that the vast majority of voters in one of the EU’s three biggest economies had said no to migration. He said the effect of this would also be felt in the bloc’s capital.

The biggest issue in Europe is therefore migration, he said, adding that the extension of the “censorship of news on migration and terrorism” to the internet was in vain. Orbán said that

Hungary’s opposition parties — which he said were doing the bidding of US financier George Soros — “still insist on not talking about the problem”.

The prime minister said he expects the opposition to field a single candidate against the ruling parties’ MP candidate in each of the electoral districts. He said the opposition was “hiding”, arguing that the “true goals” of the powers behind the opposition were opposed to the will of the Hungarian people. The opposition are hiding “while they have become a part of decision-making centres and are present in Brussels as well”, he insisted.

Orbán said the best way to stand up to the “Soros network” was to expose it. The true goals of the organisations in question should be exposed and after the election they must be made transparent and promoting migration should be banned, he said.

“Instead of trying to change Hungary’s fate, George Soros should go to America,” Orbán said.

He said migrants who enter Hungary could never be deported, adding that this was why Hungary had to be careful “not to respond incorrectly to the issue of migration”. As long as voters put their trust in the current government, “none of this will come to pass”, the prime minister added.

On the subject of the economy, Orbán said full employment in Hungary was within reach. The government has built a new, labour-based economic system and “thanks to the unity of 10 million people, Hungary escaped the clutches of bankruptcy after 2010,” he said.

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Orbán cabinet: ‘Stop Soros’ would stop NGOs ‘using migration against state’

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The “Stop Soros” law package would ban organisations using migration against the state, a justice ministry official told public television on Saturday.

The law package, which is to be voted on in parliament after the April 8 election, would allow the review of the purpose and trail of foreign funding to NGOs operating in Hungary, state secretary Pál Völner said. The leaders of these NGOs could be investigated to see whether they have engaged in illegal data collection or otherwise broken the law. Their financial transactions could also be mapped, he said.

In operating NGOs, demand should also be considered, Völner said.

A large network is pointless “for causes like this one…. even if they are paid lavishly from the background”, he said.

The aim of the bill is to make sure that “efficient organisations of international renown” such as the Maltese Charity or the Red Cross can work in Hungary, and not to “make permits available to anyone”. There are, furthermore, organisations with the “side job” of lobbying against Hungary abroad, as it has recently been revealed, Völner added.

Soros receives human rights award, then donates the money to Hungarian charity

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168.hu reports that this year, the Human Rights Award of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf is given to George Soros, philanthropist. Every year, the award, founded in 2016 by Ádám Fischer, chief conductor of the Düsseldorf Symphony, is given to an association or a person who has done a lot in the field of human rights and freedom.

The award, founded by Ádám Fischer, was first given to the Doctors Without Borders, humanitarian medical organisation, while this year, George Soros merited the title. However, he donated the money received with this award to the Hungarian Igazgyöngy Alapítvány (Real Pearl Foundation).

This is a non-governmental organisation that has been trying to fight against inequality and develop the communities in one of the most underprivileged regions of Hungary. They support families in need, deal with crisis management and offer scholarship programmes for youngsters. As the director of the foundation, Nóra Ritók L. posted after the award ceremony on her facebook page:

“We were in Düsseldorf, in the Tonhalle, where a fantastic concert conducted by Ádám Fischer, accompanied the Human Rights Award ceremony. This award is annually judged to an association or a person who has done a lot for human rights. This year, this prize together with 3 million forints (10,000 euros) goes to George Soros who decided to donate it to the Real Pearl Foundation. It is a great honour for us since out of the many foundations operating in the world, he chose us. We are going to devote this sum, similarly to all the other financial support we have been given throughout the years, to the fight against child poverty. We are really thankful for this generous donation and for the invitation of the directors of the Tonhalle and the city of Düsseldorf.”

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George Soros, according to the site, proved with this award that despite the attacks on him by political institutions, he is going to continue his philanthropic activities and support the Hungarian civil society.

As Tonhalle.de emphasises, the propaganda that represents Soros as the head of an international conspiracy supporting the welcome of immigrants into the country seems to be effective, but this award conveys an important message: “Soros’ dedication and commitment are exemplary.”

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Government Spokesperson: Two thousand people from the Soros network are working against the Hungarian Prime Minister and Hungary

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“At least two thousand people from the Soros network are working against the Hungarian Prime Minister and against Hungary; they want to interfere in the Hungarian elections and want Hungary to have a pro-immigration government”, the Government Spokesperson said.

“The Soros network has been found out with regard to yet another outrageous affair; it has transpired that at least two thousand of the network’s people are working against the Hungarian Prime Minister and against Hungary, and they are doing so with an absolutely obvious goal, a political goal, and out of financial interest: they want to interfere in the Hungarian elections and want Hungary to have a pro-immigration government instead of the current government that strongly and decidedly rejects immigration”, Zoltán Kovács said.

The Government Spokesperson cited the statement by the former Chief Financial Officer of Soros Fund Management Tracie Ahern, according to which George Soros is clearly using the hedge fund and the Open Society Organisation at a tool to facilitate the enforcement of his political opinion, financial plans and economic notions worldwide, including in Hungary.

“According to the statement, George Soros has probably spent several billion dollars on Hungary through his foundation and at least 2000 people are working to realise his will, meaning they are working against the Hungarian Prime Minister and Hungary”, he added.

For this reason, in the name of the Government Mr. Kovács called on the Soros organisations to make public the names of those 2 thousand people, and also what opposition party politicians are on the Soros organisations’ pay list.

“The Hungarian Government will resist all attempts to politically influence the Cabinet’s immigration policy and turn Hungary into an immigrant country”, he underlined. “We will apply all possible means to deprive organisations that perform banned and unlawful political activities of this opportunity”, he declared.

The Government Spokesperson pointed out that a few days ago it transpired that the Soros network is attempting to convince foreign governments, and specifically German enterprises, to blackmail the Hungarian Government into changing its policies by blackmailing them with Hungarian jobs, in addition to which it also transpired that Migration Aid is attempting to compile a secret migrant database.

In reply to a question on whether the Government has any idea who is on this list, Mr. Kovács said they would like to see what the organisations themselves have to say about this.

With relation to the fact that Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi sent immigration-related emails from a Fidesz e-mail address, the Government Spokesperson said: György Bakondi is a member of Fidesz, and as it has done so previously, Fidesz is once again sending messages to people who have given them authorisation to do so during the current campaign. Fidesz is abiding by all data protection and campaign-related regulations, he stressed. In reply to another question,

Mr. Kovács suggested that anyone who receives a letter of this kind without prior permission should turn to the authorities.

With relation to the fact that several participants of February’s student protest have received court summons’ relating to misdemeanours, Mr. Kovács said: Just because someone is 16 doesn’t mean they are exempt from having to abide by the law; it is the authorities’ job to take the relevant action if the suspicion of an infringement arises.

Hungarian Foreign Minister labels migration a ‘deadly danger’

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The terror attacks of recent years have made it clear in Europe that “migration implies the threat of terrorism and deadly danger”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday, marking the anniversary of a terrorist attack in Brussels which claimed 32 lives and injured 340 people two years ago.

A total of 24 terrorist attacks have been committed by persons with a migration background in the past two and a half years in Europe, he said. These attacks claimed 330 lives and injured more than 1,300 people, he added.

Some of the terrorists used the recent wave of migration to get to Europe, others had arrived earlier or were born in Europe to migrant parents, he said. In their cases, social integration has failed and they have not accepted the basics of European forms of living or European values, he added.

The focus of the current dispute over migration is whether the rights of migrants or those of Europeans are given priority, Szijjártó said. “The right to a safe life is a basic human right but migration is not.”

It is “unacceptable and intolerable” that some forces in Europe seek to give the rights of migrants priority over the right of Europeans to a safe life, the minister said.

It is a basic right of every European, including every Hungarian, to live safely without the threat of terror.

It is an increasingly widespread view in western Europe that the threat of terrorism is a natural part of big city life. “We do not accept that, and we will make every effort to ensure that it does not apply to Hungary,” Szijjártó said.

“If we do not protect ourselves, then nobody will,” he said. “We will fight for our right to freedom in Europe not to be eclipsed by migrant rights.”

The planned legislative package dubbed “Stop Soros” is a way of resolving the situation, he said. If the Hungarian parliament remains anti-migration after the election, then the law will enable the introduction of administrative tools that restrict or even ban the activities of NGOs that pose a threat to national security, he said.

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Election 2018 – Orbán: ‘Soros empire’ must be forced out of Hungary

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The primary task before Hungary over the coming years will be to force the “Soros empire” out of the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told local television in Komárom-Esztergom county’s Kisbér on Wednesday.

At stake in the April 8 general election is whether Hungary will have a national government or whether candidates representing US financier George Soros will get to form a government, Orbán said.

Hungary is a valuable country, he said. “There are others who want to get their hands on it, too, especially now that the country was a transit route for the mass migrant wave coming from the south,” the prime minister added.

“But Hungary protected itself with its border fence and halted the migration wave.”

Orbán said there were organisations — mainly ones tied to “the empire of George Soros — that were working to dismantle the border fence and turn Hungary into an “immigrant country”.

“If we become an immigrant country, then migrants and George Soros’s plans will be given priority instead of Hungary’s interests,” he insisted. “But we want those to remain in majority for whom Hungary comes first. This requires a national government.”

Orbán expressed hope that Hungarians living in villages and small towns will see the significance of this issue. Small towns are also crucial for Hungary’s future, he said.

What is really at stake in the election is whether the government will get to spend public funds on villages and small towns or will have to spend them on building “an immigrant country”, Orbán said.

Was a secret migrant database compiled in the transit zone?

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At his press conference on Tuesday, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács called on Migration Aid to reply to allegations that it compiled a secret database of migrants in the transit zone.

“The Cabinet is awaiting an answer to the question of what the true goal of these databases is and whether they have been handed over to third parties such as other organisations of the Soros network, for instance”, he declared, noting that the Government would also like to know where this data is stored and what other organisations took part in the operation in addition to Migration Aid.

According to Mr. Kovács, concern with relation to organisations that are linked to George Soros has increased further after an investigative report was published in the Hungarian press according to which these organisations performed illegal activities such as the unlawful collection of data.

As an example of the operations of the Soros network, the Government Spokesperson mentioned the fact that an article citing Amnesty International published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday “falsely claims that people are being kept prisoner in transit zones on the Hungarian border”.

This is just one illustration of the lies that these organisations are claiming with relation to Hungary and Hungarian border protection”, he said, underlining the fact that in recent years the Hungarian Government has spent a lot of energy on explaining the great efforts it is making at the border.

He highlighted the fact that in contrast the Soros organisations are doing everything possible to undermine Hungary’s credibility and in the interests of other goals with relation to which Vice President of the Migration Aid Foundation András Siewert has also stated are in fact of a financial and political nature.

Mr. Kovács also spoke about the fact that the Government’s goal with relation to submitting the Stop Soros legislative package, and also with legislation aimed at tightening regulations on the transparency of foreign-funded organisations, was to defend the results already achieved in combatting illegal immigration. “

These news reports are uncovering the Soros organisations’ activities in opposition to this on a daily basis”, he added.

At the beginning of his press conference, the Government Spokesperson said that recent articles in the foreign press leave no doubt with regard to the concerns and issues of national security raised by the activities that George Soros’s organisations are performing against Hungary in Western Europe, and particularly in Germany.

Mr. Kovács also referred to the article published on Monday in Hungarian daily Magyar Idők, according to which the Vice President of the Migration Aid Foundation “spilled the beans” to an undercover investigative reporter that George Soros’s alleged acts of human kindness in fact serve the enforcement of his financial interests.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about money. Of that I am sure”, the paper wrote, quoting András Siewert.

In reply to a question, the Government Spokesperson said that as a result of the efforts of the Hungarian people, real earnings in Hungary have been increasing for 61 consecutive months. He stressed that the Government is still not satisfied with the current situation because there is still a lot to do, but we can definitely state that we have begun moving in the right direction, thanks to which everyone can take a step forward from year-to-year.