Hungary Introduces “Stop George Soros” Bill Effectively Forcing Out the Billionaire’s Organization

By Jay Syrmopoulos

 Budapest, Hungary – Lawmakers in Hungary introduced “Stop Soros” legislation in February to “empower  the interior minister to ban non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that  support migration and pose a national security risk.” 

As a result, George Soros’ Hungary-based Central European University, will relocate to Vienna, according to a report by Reuters. The move against Soros-affiliated organizations by Hungarian Prime  Minister Viktor Orban is due largely due to his foundation’s stance on  mass immigration, as well as deep connections to numerous color  revolutions, the Arab Spring, and many other political uprisings across  the globe. 

Although “democracy promotion” is the stated  mission, in reality, the many Soros-linked organizations largely operate  in service of forwarding the Western globalist agenda. Reuters reported that Central European University (CEU) “signed an agreement with the City of Vienna to open a new satellite campus there.”  The move stems from a law in Hungary that set tougher restrictions on  awarding licenses to foreign universities (CEU originated in New York). 

“The new law stipulated that CEU must open a branch in its ‘home  state’ of New York alongside its campus in Budapest and secure a  bilateral agreement of support from the U.S. government,” reports Reuters. 

Soros’ Open Society Foundation on Friday vowed to not leave the country until after the expected passage of the “Stop Soros” bill and accused Hungary’s government of trying to silence non-governmental organizations. 

“The government has committed to passing the ‘Stop Soros’ law …  It will be a symbolic step which serves to stifle non-government  groups,” OSF spokesman Csaba Csontos told Reuters, noting that the organization was currently weighing its options. 

Reuters reported that the European Commission has taken Hungary to  the European Court of Justice over the Soros NGO draft law, accusing the  government of violating the right to freedom of association. But Orban, who won a landslide victory in this month’s election, has  good cause to be suspicious of Soros’ OSF and its activities in  Hungary—as one need only look at the example of Ukraine to clearly see  how the hidden hand of Soros-linked organizations set the stage for  later actions that resulted in a coup that overthrew the democratically  elected leader of Ukraine. A report in New Eastern Outlook explains precisely why Orban made moves to stifle Soros’ OSF: 

The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked  documents show that Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most  of the strings in Kiev. Soros Foundation’s Ukraine branch, International  Renaissance Foundation (IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989.  His IRF doled out more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years  before the fall of the Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for  Ukraine’s independence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to  financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current  government into power. Soros’ foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange  Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into  power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department. In  2004 just weeks after Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation had  succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael  McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in  organizing color revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia,  revealed: Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The  American agents of influence would prefer different language to  describe their activities — democratic assistance, democracy promotion,  civil society support, etc. — but their work, however labeled, seeks to  influence political change in Ukraine.

Although the EU has commenced legal action against Hungary for the  draft law, Orban stands by the legislation as he believes the Open  Society Foundation promotes mass immigration against the will of the  Hungarian people he was elected to represent. 

In October, Orban said of the hedge fund billionaire, “The Soros  network has an extensive sphere of influence within the European  Parliament and other EU bodies. Its aim is to build a Europe of mixed  population and to condemn the Hungarian government for opposing their  view on migration.” 

Anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society  Foundations in Eastern Europe, and around the world, since the late  1980s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic “democracy-building”  projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990s allowed Soros the  businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries’ wealth,  according to the New Eastern Outlook. 

When Orban, who was elected to a third term on April 8, was asked  about the prospect of an OSF departure during an interview with state  radio MR1, he responded, “You might understand if I don’t cry my eyes out.” 

He went on to point out that migration would remain at the top of the European agenda. 

The use of NGO’s to attempt to undermine states not  beholden to the current Western neoliberal order has been an ongoing  point of contention, which saw Russia kick USAID out of the country in  2012 amid accusations of attempting to incite protests and influence the  Russian presidential elections. 

As The Free Thought Project has reported,  while Soros is not a James Bond villain, the billionaire financier’s  efforts to control the direction of global politics, through the use of  his vast fortune, cannot be disregarded, or understated, as it has a  major effect on the manifestation and direction of global politics. When  one person leverages such massive amounts of wealth into influencing  global political discourse, it’s the average person’s voice that is  drowned out by the sea of cash. 

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