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The West is fuming after Orbán’s reaction to the retirement of George Soros

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News broke over the weekend that George Soros had handed over control of his USD 25 billion business to his son Alexander Soros. Obviously, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could not let this slide without adding his own opinion. He did so with only two words and a GIF, but it prompted many politicians all over the EU to react as well.

Alexander Soros took over the leadership of the Open Society Foundations from his father George Soros in December. He is the only family member of the Soros Fund Management investment committee, which oversees the foundation and the family’s money, napi.hu reports. Alexander Soros told The Wall Street Journal that he and his father are like-minded, but that he would like to take up other causes, such as supporting voting rights, abortion rights and gender equality.

Orbán reacted, Pressman did not let it pass without a word

The Hungarian Prime Minister reacted to the news with an iconic scene from the film The Godfather:

The US Ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, posted the following on Twitter:

Others also criticised Orbán

Michael Roth, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), wrote on his Twitter page, “Just disgusting, Mr. Orban is a shame for Europe”.

Daniel Freund, German Green MEP, also criticised the PM’s unusual reaction. “Look at this tweet. And then tell me who’s the mobster,” he wrote in his post.

What is more, Politico even accused the Hungarian government of spreading an anti-Semitic narrative.

We reported earlier today that according to Latvia’s new President, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Hungary is not the main obstacle to Ukraine’s NATO accession. Read the full article HERE.

George Soros skips the annual meeting of global elite in Davos – why?

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Once again, the world elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum conference. They discussed the most important international issues, with war and climate change at the centre of the talks. People, however, are more concerned about those who missed the meeting. George Soros is one of them. People have made up some stories as to why he missed the conference. Some conspiracies are absolutely mind-blowing.

Where is George Soros?

This is one question that is on the minds of the public in connection with the World Economic Forum (WEF) conference in Davos, rtl.hu reports. The absence of the billionaire is odd because in previous years, Soros has been a regular participant at the conference. He has also given speeches.

 

 

This year, he missed the forum due to an “unavoidable scheduling conflict”. In the wake of this, right-wing conspiracy theorists have begun theorising that the billionaire has taken an important step on the road to a new world order and that “something is up”.

Republican candidate James Bradley of California reacted to Soros’ announcement. He tweeted “Something is up…” and several of his party colleagues suggested that the billionaire might be about to take some drastic action. But what? The ‘answer’ was not provided by party people, but by right-wing opinion leaders, rtl.hu writes. According to Josh Read, head of the Redpill Project, “a major security or terror crisis could be on the cards in Davos this week”.

Hungarian foreign minister Szijjártó was there

However, Péter Szijjártó was present at the conference. He represented the Hungarian government in Davos for the first time during his time in office. The foreign minister spoke about the conflict between East and West. He pointed out that cooperation has become a “distant dream”. “Our government clearly does not represent the liberal mainstream, but is right-wing, patriotic and Christian-democratic, which is not a common phenomenon in Europe.” According to him, “the liberal mainstream will therefore always criticise the leadership, but it must be respected that the last four elections have been won by the governing parties by a landslide”.

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Fidesz MEP: Soros has bought the Hungarian opposition

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 The EU’s sanctions on Russian energy resources will have “catastrophic consequences” for the entire bloc, but little effect on Russia itself, an MEP of ruling Fidesz told public broadcaster Kossuth radio on Monday morning.

“When the Hungarian government expressed its doubts on the sanctions, if faced massive attacks in Hungary, in Europe and worldwide,” Tamás Deutsch said, adding that the Hungarian political left supported sanctions “to an extreme extent”.

Meanwhile, energy prices skyrocketed after the sanctions were introduced, and Russia had a record 158 billion euro revenue from energy exports, 85 billion of which was paid by the EU, Deutsch said. “While the EU is now buying less energy, it is paying more for it, inflation is soaring, and ensuring energy security is becoming more difficult,” he said.

Asked about reports that the Hungarian opposition had received 2 billion forints (EUR 5m) worth of dollars in funding from abroad for its election campaign, Deutsch said the left had breached election rules banning foreign campaign financing.

“It is not difficult to draw the conclusion that George Soros has bought the Hungarian opposition which has never regained its independence since its election defeat,” he said.

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The American host spoke to George Soros in Hungarian

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Fox News host, Steve Hilton sent a message to George Soros in Hungarian. On the network’s Next Revolution show, Hilton invited Soros, who supports liberal causes, to Los Angeles.

“Come here to Los Angeles and tell this to the families who have lost sons, daughters, fathers, mothers!” That’s what Fox News host Steve Hilton told George Soros on Next Revolution.

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Soros is a familiar name in American public life. The billionaire businessman has been in the news lately for his large contributions to the election of liberal-minded prosecutors.

Steve Hilton, also of Hungarian descent, was involved with Soros after a recent article about Soros in the Wall Street Journal. In it, he calls the prosecutors he supports reformers, hirado.hu reports.

“Instead of writing articles from the safety of your billion-dollar fortress, listen to what I say as one Hungarian to another Hungarian.” The presenter then turns Hungarian and calls Soros to Los Angeles.

You can watch the video HERE!

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Migration reaches ‘new level of danger’, says Hungarian FM Szijjártó in Serbia

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Migration pressure at Hungary’s southern border has reached a “new level of danger”, the foreign minister said in Subotica (Szabadka), in northern Serbia, after meeting Nikola Selakovic, his Serbian counterpart on Monday.

Péter Szijjártó insisted that migrants were “increasingly aggressive and violent”, adding that “they now have weapons and they use them”.

Szijjártó said Europe was facing “dramatic challenges” including a “permanent inflationary environment” due to the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.

“The migrant crisis is aggravating… and Hungary has to face that challenge presenting itself as pressure from the south and the east at the same time,” he said.

As we wrote on the weekend, Afghan and Pakistani migrants clashed in a forest close to the Hungarian-Serbian border yesterday night, details: One dead after migrants’ armed clash near the Serbian-Hungarian border

He told a joint press conference that as a result of the increasingly intensive war in Ukraine, the number of migrants at Hungary’s eastern borders was growing, with over 10,000 refugees arriving daily, totaling over 820,000 so far.

“Concurrently, the pressure of migration is growing. More than 110,000 illegal migrants have been stopped at our southern border so far,” he said and added that increasingly violent migrants carrying guns posed a security threat for both Serbia and Hungary. “We must make it clear that this is not a human rights issue,” he said. “I would like to make it clear that these people attacking our police and acting aggressively in Serbia, shooting guns, have no right whatsoever to enter Hungary’s territory,” he added.

Szijjártó said the migrants had been crossing through safe countries and violated several borders, which means that they arrived in Serbia by committing a series of crimes and “nobody has the right to act this way”. The situation will get increasingly serious because the war in Ukraine results in the threat of famine at several locations in the world, he said. “The food supply crisis will most probably put a more serious migratory pressure on Serbia and Hungary alike. As a result, I believe we are in the last hour that Brussels and NGOs linked to [US financier] George Soros should stop encouraging migrants and organising migration,” he added.

“We are asking Brussels and NGOs linked to Soros not to encourage the migrants, not to abet them to commit crimes and to violate the sovereignty of countries, such as Serbia and Hungary,”

he said. The responsibility for violent crimes committed by migrants, including acts that caused the loss of lives, lies with those that encourage migrants to come to Serbia and Hungary, he said.

Szijjártó said Hungary would not allow any illegal migrants to enter and advised them to not even try. “It is not worth coming to Serbia because they will not be able to move on to Hungary,” he added.

He said that while Hungary was fulfilling its duty to let in and help people fleeing from war in the east and stop the illegal migrants in the south, Brussels was holding back monies due to Hungary “in an effort of political blackmail”.

Szijjártó also said that cooperation between Serbia and Hungary was a success story, with a spectacular increase in trade between the two countries. During the first four months of this year, trade increased by 117 percent compared to the same period of last year and the increase was 42 percent in the whole of 2021 compared to the year before, he added.

He said the modernisation of the Belgrade – Budapest railway link, “the largest joint effort of all times”, had already entered a phase of implementation also in Hungary. As a result, under an agreement signed by the ministers on Monday, rail traffic on the line will be stopped from August 1, and cargo traffic will be moved to the Szeged-Subotica line which had been refurbished.

Commenting on energy issues, he said the two countries had recently made arrangements to ensure that “natural gas from Russia, which is critical for the security of energy supplies in Serbia, as well as in Hungary, and for the time being cannot be replaced, should securely arrive in Serbia and Hungary,” he said.

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Fidesz MEP: LIBE and Delbos-Corfield prepares a “pre-written verdict”

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After the clear and unequivocal decision made by Hungarians at the parliamentary elections on April 3, it is high time that respect should be shown and accusations stopped against the country, ruling Fidesz MEP Balázs Hidvéghi said on Wednesday in reaction to a recent report on Hungary.

Hidvéghi said on Facebook that the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) was scheduled to meet this week and “a report condemning Hungary is again on the agenda”. Following the critical reports of rapporteurs Rui Tavares and Judith Sargentini in the past, the new report has been drafted by Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield who visited Hungary a few months ago heading a LIBE committee, he added.

Hidvéghi, who is a substitute in LIBE, said that

Delbos-Corfield had prepared a “pre-written verdict” and consulted organisations linked to US financier George Soros.

At the April election, however, Hungarians “unequivocally rejected these lies, they rejected Brussels’ arrogance and constant lecturing,” Hidvéghi said.

Orbán: Fidesz secures ‘greatest win even when everyone was against us’

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, speaking to supporters as the results of Sunday’s election came in, declared that ruling Fidesz had secured its greatest victory even when “great international forces” had mobilised against it.

All the money international organisations provided to the Hungarian opposition was “money down the drain”, he said. Referring to financier George Soros, Orbán said “the Hungarian left is Uncle Gyuri’s worst investment; they have done nothing but take money for twelve years.”

“We’ve protected Hungary’s peace and security,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a victory speech after his Fidesz-led alliance secured a fourth successive term in Sunday’s election. “We’ve protected Hungary’s independence and freedom; we’ve protected its peace and security,” Orban said. Referring to the referendum on child protection, he added: “Although the final results are not known yet, I trust we’ve also protected our children and families.”

Addressing supporters at the Bálna Centre on the Pest side of the River Danube, the site where Fidesz awaited the results, Orbán said:

“The whole world could see here in Budapest tonight that Christian Democratic policies, conservative civic policies and patriotic policies have won.”

“We’re sending the message to Europe that this is not the past, this is the future,” he said. “This will be our shared European future.” “The whole world can see that Hungarians love their country,” he added. “We who have won tonight commit to always putting Hungary first,” Orbán said.

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Orbán: liberal world press, George Soros and Brussels bureaucrats are the opponents

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If the left wing wins Sunday’s general election, it will give the green light to weapons deliveries to Ukraine the next day, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on the campaign trail on Friday.

Orbán said the opposition also backed proposals to cut off Russian gas and oil supplies. Campaigning in Székesfehérvár, in central Hungary, he accused the opposition of having “already struck a deal with the Ukrainians”.

Furthermore, Orbán insisted the opposition was widely blamed for foul play, but

the scale of their election fraud this time, he added, was “unprecedented”.

He charged the opposition with collecting the personal data of millions of Hungarians illegally and holding it abroad, before returning it to Hungary and bombarding Hungarians with unsolicited messages. “This amounts to obvious and unambiguous election fraud,” he said. “Nevertheless, we must tackle this obstacle course and win the election,” Orban added.

Referring to the October 23 pro-government Peace March, the prime minister said: “Our strongest weapon lies in cooperation and our reliance on one another; this is our true hinterland.” “If we fight together we can break through the thickest wall,” he said,

listing Fidesz opponents as “the liberal world press, all Uncle Gyuri’s [George Soros] activists and the plethora of Brussels bureaucrats.”

The prime minister said that Fidesz had initially focused its campaign on the question of “whether Hungary should return to the failed past or continue the work started twelve years ago.” He said the path to victory was to convince the public that

Ferenc Gyurcsány, the former Socialist prime minister, was “still the boss and that our opponents haven’t changed”.

“But a war broke out in the meantime and changed everything, including our campaign,” Orbán said. The issue then became making a choice between “war and peace”, the prime minister said, adding he believed that everybody in Hungary was “on the side of peace”, irrespective of their party affiliation.

Everyone, he said, would see it as a war between two other nations.

“And since we are Hungarians, our job is to stay out of it,”

he said, adding that “only the national side” could guarantee this. “The left wing believes that Ukraine is fighting our war, which is wrong,” he said. “This is not our war; we cannot win anything, but we could lose everything,” Orbán said, adding that the only way for Hungary to stay out of the war was by not sending weapons or troops to Ukraine, and by not allowing the transit of weapons across the country’s territory.

He said the risks associated with the ongoing war in Ukraine was “incomparably greater” than those of the Yugoslav War in 1999, noting that Russia is a nuclear power.

The Ukrainian president’s efforts to involve as many European countries as possible in the war must be taken “with understanding”, he said, because those aim to mitigate or even avoid defeat, adding that the governing parties’ dispute was not with Ukraine but with the Hungarian opposition, which, he insisted, “has already reached an agreement with the Ukrainians behind our backs”.

Orbán said that if the opposition won Sunday’s election, they would start sending weapons to Ukraine the next day and

back proposals to turn off the taps of Russian pipelines supplying gas and oil to Hungary.

“We must not allow this; we must protect Hungary’s interests,” Orban said, adding that any sanctions on energy deliveries would paralyze Hungary.

“There would be fuel shortages, factories would have to close down, and many people would lose their jobs,” he said. “Our hearts are with the Ukrainians,” Orbán said, adding however that Hungary must stand up for its interests and keep out of the war.

“Hungary has so far provided assistance to close to 600,000 refugees,”

the prime minister said. “This is why Ferenc Gyurcsány is wrong in saying that Hungary is ‘a crap country’. We are a great country that is offering help and providing all the care possible to those who are fleeing from trouble,” said Orbán.

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Fidesz: EU must deal with the Soros network!

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Tamás Deutsch in a letter to fellow MEPs has said “the time has come to substantially deal with” the case of the “external influence of the Soros network on EU institutions”.

Deutsch, who heads Fidesz’s EP group, said in the letter posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday that a recent series of articles in the daily Magyar Nemzet had “finally uncovered” how the “network” of financier George Soros truly operated. He said the articles had provided “irrefutable evidence” concerning the network’s modus operandi, which many had dismissed as “fiction or a conspiracy theory”.

The report, he added, provided evidence of the operation of

“double standards, fake news and manipulation” against Hungary and Poland on the part of the “Soros network”.

Deutsch told MEPs in his letter that the issue went beyond Hungary and Poland, insisting it was a “pan-European problem”. Its manipulations, he added, extended to western mainstream media, which, he insisted, echoed the biases of Soros’s NGOs.

The Soros network, moreover, increasingly influenced the activities and decisions of EU institutions, he said, insisting that politicians and bureaucrats had been parachuted into EU positions by the network, threatening the integrity of those institutions.

Referring to a report by Sergey Lagodinsky of the Greens/European Free Alliance group to be discussed at this week’s EP plenary session, he said the report suggested that

Soros’s political lobbyists “disguised as NGOs”

should be protected from the jurisdiction of EU member states, which, he said, would erode transparency and accountability.

“In this case, too, the absurd idea of representing the Soros network’s self-interest is now passing through the European Parliament like a hot knife through butter,” Deutsch said. The MEP said that failure to take “appropriate action” against the external influence of the Soros network on the EU could lead to mounting tensions between member states and EU institutions and add strains to European cooperation.

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Fidesz: Voters should have final say in child protection debate

With Brussels and organisations linked to US financier George Soros “attacking” Hungary over its child protection law, it is only right if voters have the final say in the debate, the group leader of ruling Fidesz has said in connection with Hungary’s April 3 referendum on child protection.

Storybooks, commercials and the internet are subjecting children to “propaganda” on sexual orientations, which they should be protected from, Máté Kocsis told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio on Sunday. It is parents who have the exclusive right to decide on the sex education of their children, he said.

Kocsis said

Hungary had been under pressure from the international media and under attack “by NGOs linked to Soros and pseudo-civil groups” since it passed its anti-paedophile and child protection law last summer.

“Let’s let the people decide; that’s the right way to do it,” he said.

Meanwhile, he said

the criticisms levelled against the law by Péter Márki-Zay, the opposition’s joint candidate for prime minister, were “baffling”.

“Every mother and father was outraged when Péter Márki-Zay questioned the assertion that the father is a man and the mother a woman,” he said. Márki-Zay, he added, should wait for the outcome of the referendum “instead of insulting those who think differently”.

Concerning the prime ministerial debate initiated by Marki-Zay, Kocsis said:

“The prime ministerial candidate really just keeps harping on about this debate.”

“Debating is so important to him that he’s now literally debating pensioners, rural Hungarians, minimum wage earners, those with disabilities, workers, journalists and political analysts,” Kocsis said.

Hungary in the foreign media: Soros network holds all the cards?

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A former journalist of left-leaning news portals 24.hu and Index.hu in a leaked interview has spoken candidly about how international NGOs “hold all the cards” when it comes to reporting on Hungary in foreign media, the state secretary for international communications and relations has said.

Citing an article in the daily Magyar Nemzet, Zoltán Kovács said on Twitter on Thursday: “Why am I not surprised? Partly because these statements are not the only ones made recently by liberals on the topic of biased reporting about Hungary. I honestly can’t wait to see what’s next.”

Most NGOs, including Amnesty International and “the ones financed by George Soros, exercise huge influence over foreign reporters writing about Hungary in the international press,” Kovács said said in an English-language post on abouthungary.hu. “For example I was invited to Brussels and Strasburg to report on individual events. Usually, in these cases, journalists were really instructed where they should go, who they can talk to,” Kovács said citing the journalist.

According to the journalist,

“it is not good” that press workers are so dependent on NGOs, and it is difficult to work transparently in such circumstances,

Kovács added. Meanwhile, in an interview in Friday’s Magyar Nemzet newspaper, the state secretary for communications and international relations said the “Soros network” had affected the way Hungary was being portrayed in the international media.

Hungary had been in the receiving end of such distortions since 2010, Kovács said, adding

the best way to combat misimpressions among the western public was to correct them in the international press.

Nevertheless, it was hard to get through to them, he added.

Kovács said the journalist in question who is a former head of the Soros Foundation had recently conceded that Hungary and Poland were being “attacked” on the international stage “with many unjust accusations”. The Soros network’s modus operandus was now clear, he said, adding that western readers, by default, couldn’t understand “what makes the Hungarian government so popular”.

Kovács said hundreds and thousands were “actively involved” all over the world in peddling “distorted facts or opinions”. “We’ve seen this … for the past twelve years … ever since the media law, the fundamental law and the cardinal laws were passed.”

In the run-up to the April 3 general election, he added, Hungary’s electoral system would be “attacked yet again by the Soros network”.

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Soros’s message: Hungarians can outvote an autocrat in 2022 – VIDEO

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The Hungarian-born philanthropist and businessman called a stock exchange speculator by many sent a message to the Hungarians before the 2022 general elections. PM Orbán’s government has been fearmongering for half a decade. Having written that, the content of Soros’s message is not a surprise. 

PM Orbán says he conspires to settle migrants in Hungary and Europe because his aim is an open society where traditions, nations and religions fade away. The Hungarian government declared they would contend that program, Soros and his allies.

Meanwhile, almost everybody knows in Hungary that George Soros was one of the biggest supporters of the Fidesz in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Based on the gossip, he bought the first photocopier for the party and helped officials of Fidesz with scholarships. Viktor Orbán, for example, could spend some months in Oxford by winning one of those grants before the 1990 general elections.

This positive and later neutral attitude changed after the migration crisis in 2015. Since then, the government has launched even a billboard campaign against Soros. They claimed on the posters that the billionaire wants to help migrants come and settle in Hungary.

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Billboard campaign initiated by Government against the so-called Soros-plan, i.e. helping migrants to come and settle down in Europe.

Soros shared his thoughts for the new year on 31 January, focusing on how China threatens open societies in the world. He said that China was the most potent authoritarian power in the world. He added that Beijing would do just like Hitler in 1936: Xi Jinping will use the winter Olympics to spread propaganda. 

He highlighted that Hungary’s voters – against all odds – may turn an authoritarian ruler out of power. He said that together with the new German Government, the French elections in April and Putin’s decision about Europe would determine the fate of Europe.

Afterwards, Soros talked about China and the possible outcomes of the following party congress, during which Xi Jinping can be elected as party general secretary for a third term. As CNN reported, Soros highlighted that China faced economic problems. That is because its real estate boom ended in a bang last year. 

“Soros has in recent years emerged as a prominent critic of Xi and China’s ruling Communist Party. The legendary investor and chair of the Open Society Foundations said in September that asset manager BlackRock was making a “tragic mistake” by doing more business in China. He has criticized Beijing over its surveillance policies and a crackdown on private business.” – CNN reported.

IMF’s prognosis is about a 4.8 pc economic growth in 2022 for China which is a dramatically low rate in the case of the Asian country.

 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s views on European issues – Part 2

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently gave an interview to the Czech conservative daily Lidove Noviny. You can read about the Hungarian Prime Minister’s views on European and Worldwide problems.

Commenting on migration, he said double standards were operating in Europe. Referring to fences built by Hungary and the Baltic states, he said whenever a liberal government did something it was always good, but when a conservative one did the same it was always the opposite.

Orbán said the EU does not have to let in Afghan migrants because they should stay in their region and Europe should help the countries of that region cope with the burden of Afghan migrants. However, if Germany wants Hungary to open a corridor for Afghans to reach Germany, Hungary will be willing to do so, he added.

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He said that after the big migration wave of 2015 acts of terrorism had intensified, adding that there was a connection between the two, and the latter always grew commensurate with the former.

Brussels, he said, was again attempting to pressurise member states into relocating migrants. “We’ll have to veto [this] again and again…” Orbán added.

The prime minister said Brussels was dragging its heels on its decision over EU recovery money, but the funds would arrive sooner or later. In the meantime, Hungary has raised a large amount of money, 4.5 billion euros, on the market with interest of below 1 percent, he said, adding this “good deal” would enable the country to implement developments needed for recovery. “Hungarian projects are up and running without a cent from Brussels,” he said.

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Commenting on the introduction of a 15 percent global corporate tax, Orbán said he did not support international decisions that interfered in the tax policies of a sovereign state.

Regarding domestic politics, he said the Fidesz government was locked in a battle with its predecessor to prevent the “regime” of Ferenc Gyurcsány from making a return. He said voters had not forgotten that period of the former Socialist-liberal prime minister. “This is why we won three times in a row and that’s why we’ll win a fourth time.”

Drawing a parallel between the political forces allied against himself and those against Babis, he said central European countries all faced a similar situation, insisting that whenever the “big powers” turned against a government in central Europe, they promoted forces that sympathised with them and served their interests.

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Orbán accused the “Soros Network” of backing forces, including the “Brussels bureaucracy”, that were protesting against Czech and Hungarian sovereignty. “Today Brussels favours servile governments,” he said, “not leaders who fight for the independence of their own country.”

Regarding the Czechs and Hungarians, he said the two peoples were different in that Hungarians were more akin to Christian spiritual traditions and national sentiment — and this was reflected in the bearing of their leaders. “No one can argue, however, that Andrej Babis is one of Europe’s greatest fighters,” he added.

On the topic of the German elections, Orbán said Germany was experiencing “something novel”, and the big question now was whether or not the election outcome would lead to a predictable, reliable Germany led by a great chancellor.

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Fidesz slams EC rule of law report as ‘political blackmail’

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Balázs Hidvéghi, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, on Wednesday slammed the European Commission’s annual rule of law report covering all member states as “political blackmail dressed up in legal garb”.

“It didn’t come as a surprise,” Hidvéghi said in a video message commenting on the report, adding that the government “had no illusions in connection with the EC’s so-called rule of law report after the events of the past few weeks”.

He said Brussels was “using this frivolous and biased document” to call Hungary to account for its own ideological expectations.

Hidvéghi said

the report was “full of absurd claims that have nothing to do with reality”.

If one looks over the report’s references it becomes clear that this text “was also dictated by the known Soros organisations”, the MEP said.

He said one such “absurd” claim was that Hungarian journalists faced intimidation and were not safe. “They’re saying this when just days ago an investigative journalist was murdered in broad daylight in the Netherlands,” he said.

“Meanwhile, another journalist was killed in Malta by a car bomb, yet Brussels is concerned about the state of the media in Hungary,” he added.

“This deceitful report is nothing more than an attempt to blackmail our country,” Hidveghi said. “All because we’re going against the Brussels-based mainstream, say no to immigration, protect our children and refuse to let LGBTQ activists into kindergartens and schools.”

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Soros behind attack on Hungary’s media record, says minister

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Financier George Soros is behind fresh attacks on Hungary’s government over its record on media freedom, Judit Varga, the justice minister, said on Monday.

Varga was responding to press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) placing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on its list of “predators”.

As we wrote, Hungarian PM Orbán is the only European leader featured on the list, read more HERE.

Read more at: https://dailynewshungary.com/reporters-without-borders-pm-orban-among-press-freedom-predators/

“The Soros ‘ex machina’ kicked in again,” Varga wrote on Facebook in her English-language post.

“The organisations of the left-wing opinion bubble are once again trying to undermine Hungary’s reputation with false reports and lists by using directed questions,” she wrote.

“The list published by the ‘independent and objective’ Reporters Without Borders on Monday attempts to portray Hungary as a place where the freedom of the press is being oppressed in a particularly drastic and ruthless way.”

Varga said RSF had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Soros’s foundations.

She wrote that “the regulatory environment of Hungarian media activities was developed in cooperation with the [European] Commission.”

“Hungary is one of the few Member States where genuine pluralism prevails both in the media and in ideological debates, as well as in the public opinion,” she added.

The minister also cited “Politico’s refusal to publish an Op-ed of the Minister of Justice of a democratically elected government”, adding that this was “worrying from a media freedom point of view”.

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Government: George Soros avoided paying taxes

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Csaba Dömötör, a state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, on Friday hit back at US financier George Soros for “insulting Hungary”, citing US media reports that Soros had avoided paying taxes by tucking billions of dollars into his charity organisation.
 
“George Soros is insulting Hungary again; this time by calling it a mafia state,” Dömötör wrote. “These sort of insults ring totally false from a billionaire who pays no taxes.”
 
Citing recent press reports, Dömötör said Soros had
managed to avoid paying federal income tax for three years.
“Foundations play a key role in these tax evasion manoeuvres,” the state secretary said, adding that Soros had moved 18 billion dollars into his Open Society Foundations alone.
 
“The Wall Street Journal is calling this transfer of wealth the single biggest tax dodge in US history,” he added.
 
 
Meanwhile, Dömötör said, Soros was calling for others to pay more taxes. He cited the Project Syndicate website linked to Soros as calling corporate tax increases “the best solution” to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. However, a low corporate tax rate is one of Hungary’s biggest competitive advantages, he added.
 
“If he [Soros] attacks us a hundred times, we’ll defend ourselves a hundred times,”
Dömötör said. “And we will add each time that an unelected tax-dodging godfather shouldn’t lecture us on democracy.”

George Soros wants to attack Hungary through NATO?

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The Hungarian national media is known for extreme reaches, but this time it is exceptionally out of pocket.

Readers less versed in conspiracy theories may have been surprised on Tuesday by browsing hirado.hu, according to 444.hu.

Soros issued the order to NATO: they must intervene in Hungarian internal affairs

– read the title of the article.

Organisations affiliated with George Soros state in a joint document that Hungarian internal affairs must also be intervened through NATO, and that the United States of America must become a defender of global democracy.

At the same time, it is clear that the European Union and the Western elite have come under the influence of a non-governmental organisation.

It is already a fact that EU politicians affiliated with Soros or the Open Society Foundations system are on payrolls. Consequently, it is believed that they could put pressure not only on Brussels but also on NATO.

However, it is not clear who published the document, why they did that and where it can be found. Perhaps, it is enough that László Földi, an intelligence expert with much expertise, explains that “the European Union and the Western elite have come under the influence of a non-governmental organisation”. Still, even Földi acknowledges that “this is an initiative that points to many things, but at the same time lacks factuality in any way” as NATO does not attack its own allies.

The fact that payrolls include EU politicians who can be tied to Soros or the Open Society Foundations system is also mentioned in the article. According to Földi, NATO should have intervened more during the refugee crisis, which is finally the topic that has been mentioned in the same context as Soros’s name a million times in different forms of propaganda, never actually achieving anything.

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Gestapo-like terror of Jews and their Hungarian saviours

Lóversenypálya 1944

When we hear the term war heroes, we instantly think about soldiers in their uniforms being awarded a medal for their merits in a war. They are heroes indeed, but in every war, there were those people who did not get mentioned or received any recognition for their actions.

When it comes to the Second World War, Hungary had many ordinary civilians who risked their lives, not only to protect the country, but also to save Jewish friends from certain death.

We know of hundreds of Hungarians who were brave enough to hide or help Jews escape, even if they were total strangers to them.

Honouring their bravery, we would like to introduce some of them.

In the Winter of 1945, the “nyilasok”, members of a radical right-wing death squad, the Arrow Cross Party, only needed a gun and an armband to do whatever they wanted to in the capital without any retribution.  András Kun, the commander of the anti-semitic group, together with his companions massacred hundreds of people in two hospitals and a nursing home – writes szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu.

“The majority of Jews living in Budapest tried to survive in ghettos at these times, only a small group of them was deported.” – says historian Balázs Lenthár.

However, it would be a mistake to think that the whole population was watching the events senselessly.  

In the 12th district on the Apor Vilmos Square, we can find the Igazak Fala – The Wall of True People with the names of those carved who were saving people during WWII.

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Igazak Fala on the Apor Vilmos Square – photo: wikipedia – Globetrotter19

The Jad Vashem Remembrance Center awarded the majority of them, but we aim to also mention those who had not received this honour. Most of these people’s names are utterly unknown for Hungarians as well, even though they lived just in the neighbourhood of our parents or grandparents. Moreover, some of them are actually here today thanks to them.

Ferenc Kálló, a priest, helped Jews until the end, even if he had to do so in secret. From 1944 he saved hundreds of people but unfortunately with time he became suspicious. He was tricked into going and giving the final unction to someone on his death bed. His body was found the next day – a bullet killed him.

Dr Kálmán Zolnay, despite working in the Ministry of Justice, could not agree with the anti-semitic politics in the country.

He saved the wife, the son and the unborn child of one of his friends who was taken for labour service. Moreover, he used his own apartment in the capital to save people. Finally, Zolnay had to hide as well, as none other than András Kun himself moved to the building he lived in.

Klára Tüdős Zsindelyné saved dozens of Jewish children despite his husband being the Minister on Commerce and Transport. Thanks to her widespread network of relations, she was hiding Jews in her villa and even cooperated with the Swedish Embassy to run several hiding places.

“Let’s not forget Captain László Ocskay, who saved almost 2500 people in two years!”

– says Lenthár. As his personality did not match the lying anti-fascist narrative after 1945, his name was forgotten. However, he was one of the most decent people of this period. The “Hungarian Schindler” acquired a civil career after the Treaty of Trianon, but in 1943 he again decided to join the Hungarian Defence Forces. Ocskay himself, due to his noble origins and Western relations, was persecuted. He left the country in 1948 and lived in the United States working as a nightguard. He died before people he saved could have found him.

Pál Szalai took a very risky job by being a “nyilas”. He was present at the birth of the movement, but by the 1940s, he completely changed his mind. When he was called back to work for the party, he did join them pretending he was still one of them. Making the most out of his position, he went from home to home and warned Jews to take all their belongings with them. He even made a rule that the “nyilasok” can only take people’s belongings if the homeowner is present. Thus not only did he save people but gave them a chance to flee with at least some of their valuables.

Finally, to show the importance of the heroic acts of these people, here is a controversial person in Hungary’s life who is alive today thanks to a brave person. György Soros and his family was saved by his father’s employee and very good friend, Ferenc Balázs. He offered his family’s own documents to the Soros family to escape the country and certain death. 

News on happenings of the Second World War and Holocaust might be boring and repetitive for many, saying that past is in the past and we need to focus on the future, but countless people living in Hungary and all over the world today would not have the chance to focus on their future if it had not been for these brave people. 

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