'Soros Plan': Why Hungarian PM Blasts US Billionaire for Destabilizing Europe - Sputnik International
Author: Sputnik
Description: The standoff between George Soros and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is raging on: The European Commission has recently issued yet another ultimatum to Budapest over the country's nongovernmental organization and education laws, which are allegedly targeting Soros's entities in Hungary. The country's ruling Fidesz party strikes back.
Keywords: NGOs, US foreign policy, refugee crisis, law, sanctions, Central European University (CEU), European Commission, European Union, Viktor Orban, George Soros, Hungary, Europe, United States

- Sputnik International
- all editions

Log inRegister Log out
08:22 GMT +308 October 2017

- Home
- World
- Business
- Opinion
- Tech
- Viral
- Radio
- Multimedia
- Cartoons
- Blogs

- Europe
- US
- Russia
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Asia & Pacific
- Africa

- As If
- Brave New World
- By Any Means Necessary
- Context Countdown
- Double Down
- Hard Facts
- Level Talk
- Loud & Clear
- The BradСast
- Trendstorm
- Fault Lines

- Photo
- Video
- Infographics

# 'Soros Plan': Why Hungarian PM Blasts US Billionaire for Destabilizing Europe

© REUTERS/ Ruben Sprich
Opinion
20:05 06.10.2017(updated 21:58 07.10.2017) Get short URL
8 2331410

The standoff between George Soros and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is raging on: The European Commission has recently issued yet another ultimatum to Budapest over the country's nongovernmental organization and education laws, which are allegedly targeting Soros's entities in Hungary. The country's ruling Fidesz party strikes back.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban appears to be the last obstacle in the way of George Soros's plan to "reconstruct" Europe, experts say.

On Wednesday, Reuters reported that the European Commission (EC) increased legal action against Budapest over "restrictions on foreign funding," which are "likely to affect civil society groups funded by the billionaire investor George Soros." According to the official statement, EC reserves the right to "refer the case to the Court of Justice of the EU."

Hungarian NGO Law 'Targeting George Soros'

A Hungarian law passed in June 2017 stipulates that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), which receive more than 24,000 euros a year from abroad should provide a list of their external sponsors and undergo a special registration as "organizations benefiting from foreign financing."

According to the Hungarian prime minister, the legislation is aimed at targeting money laundering and terrorism funding. However, The Atlantic writes that "the law is… widely seen as targeting George Soros" in the first place.

© REUTERS/ Ruben Sprich
'Mafia Network': Why Hungary Becomes a Thorn in the Side of George Soros
The recent conflict between Orban and the Hungarian-born American magnate has been gaining pace since April 2017, when new educational legislation posing a challenge to the Soros-founded Central European University (CEU) in Hungary was inked by President Janos Ader.

The law requires foreign accredited universities to provide educational services in the countries of their origin and bans them from awarding Hungarian diplomas in the absence of an agreement between Hungary and a country of accreditation.

Although the CEU is accredited in the United States it does not provide any educational services there. Besides, there is no legally binding bilateral agreement between Budapest and Washington, as required by the new law.

In the eyes of the European Commission the NGO and education laws contradict the bloc's democratic principles. Thus, in July 2017 the EU issued a one-month ultimatum to Hungary, threatening Budapest with possible sanctions in court.

2015 'Soros Plan': Flooding Europe With Migrants

However, there is yet another "apple of discord" between the Hungarian government on the one side and the influential American billionaire and his EU allies on the other.

The country's ruling Fidesz party has recently launched a "national consultation" on the so-called "Soros plan" allegedly aimed at flooding Europe with migrants. The national consultations have been held in Hungary since 2011: The country's government sends questionnaires seeking to determine the popular opinion on the most burning issues.

"The European Commission stops just short of saying that they carry out the Soros plan… but all their steps and ideas with regard to migration point in this direction," Fidesz's vice chairman Lajos Kosa said as quoted by Reuters.

© Flickr/ Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Why Brussels Teamed Up With Soros to Bring Hungary to Its Knees
The statement apparently came as a response to the September ruling by the European Court of Justice, which rejected Slovakia and Hungary's complaints against the EU refugee quota plan. Earlier, Budapest and Bratislava appealed to the bloc's top court to reconsider Brussels' decision to share out 120,000 asylum seekers across the union.

Speaking about the "Soros plan" the Hungarian ruling party refers to the billionaire's article "Rebuilding the Asylum System" published on September 26, 2015, during the peak of the migrant crisis on the old continent.

In his op-ed Soros outlined what he called "a comprehensive plan," which envisaged that the EU had to accept "at least a million asylum-seekers annually for the foreseeable future" and "share the burden fairly."

The billionaire insisted that "the EU should provide €15,000 ($16,800) per asylum-seeker for each of the first two years to help cover housing, health care, and education costs" and offer "adequate funding to Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey to support the 4 million refugees currently living in those countries."

In the end of his article Soros lambasted Viktor Orban's approach to the refugee crisis, claiming that the Hungarian prime minister's vision "subordinates the human rights of asylum-seekers and migrants to the security of borders" and thus "threatens to divide and destroy the EU."

Why Viktor Orban's Positions Remain Strong

Despite the attacks from Brussels and the American billionaire, Viktor Orban's political positions remain strong "because he acts as an active champion of national interests on the issue of migration," Alexander Stykalin, a researcher at the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) told RT.

According to the Russian academic, "if there were elections in the country, [Orban] would most likely win again."

For her part, Russian political analyst Anna Aryamova pointed out that Orban's concerns about the migration problem are quite justified: "This mass migration spells danger for European countries, [in particular] for their economy and social sphere."

She explained that "thus Europe is paying for the aggressive US policy" in the Middle East and North Africa. The migrant flow from the countries destabilized by Washington plays into America's hand, according to the political analyst: The tension simmering in the wartorn regions is being exported to Europe, not the US.

"Soros's [Open Society] Foundations is a global project that is seeking to influence global political processes," Aryamova told RT. "Apart from this fund, there are many American organizations operating in Europe, but Soros is managing the largest financial flows and therefore he is attracting the most attention."

...
Reddit
Google+
Blogger
Pinterest
StumbleUpon
Telegram
WhatsApp
41 0

### Related:

  Power Games: What McCain, Soros and the Clintons Have in Common

  Soros and Hydrocarbons: What's Really Behind the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar

  Democrats Tied Their Horse to Soros' Causes & He's Pulling Strings in Background

  Tens of Thousands Ask White House to Declare Billionaire Soros Terrorist

  Israel Accuses Soros of 'Continuously Undermining Democratically Elected Gov'ts'

Tags:
NGOs, US foreign policy, refugee crisis, law, sanctions, Central European University (CEU), European Commission, European Union, Viktor Orban, George Soros, Hungary, Europe, United States
Track Do not track Community standardsDiscussion
Comment via FacebookComment via Sputnik

- Сomment
- Thank you! Your comment will be reviewed by the moderator for compliance with the Rules
  Add more

### All comments

Show more comments (20)

Show new comments (0)

- Сomment

- Reply

  ##### in reply to(Show commentHide comment)

  | | Edit | Delete
Thank you! Your comment will be reviewed by the moderator for compliance with the Rules
E-mail:
Screen Name:
Password:
Confirm password:
Please type the code
Log in Privacy Policy
By clicking 'Register', you confirm that you agree to our Privacy Policy and give your consent to the processing of personal data in accordance with the Privacy Policy
* All fields are required
Please confirm your e-mail to continue. Confirmation instructions have been sent to
Ok
Enter e-mail
Please type the code
Log in Privacy Policy
Success! Instructions to recover your password have been sent to
Ok
Do you have a Sputniknews.com account?
YesNo

### Hello, !

E-mail:
Password:
Remember me
I do not have a Sputniknews.com account
RegisterForgot your password? Privacy Policy
Ok

### Hello, !

E-mail:
Screen Name:
Log in
I have a Sputniknews.com account
Ok
Are you sure you want to delete your Sputniknews.com account?
YesNo
Your account has been deleted! You can restore your account within 30 days by following the link sent to the e-mail address you entered during registration.
Close

The fact of registration and authorization of users on Sputnik websites via users’ account or accounts on social networks indicates acceptance of these rules.

Users are obliged abide by national and international laws. Users are obliged to speak respectfully to the other participants in the discussion, readers and individuals referenced in the posts.

The websites’ administration has the right to delete comments made in languages ​​other than the language of the majority of the websites’ content.

In all language versions of the sputniknews.com websites any comments posted can be edited.

A user comment will be deleted if it:

- does not correspond with the subject of the post;
- promotes hatred and discrimination on racial, ethnic, sexual, religious or social basis or violates the rights of minorities;
- violates the rights of minors, causing them harm in any form, including moral damage;
- contains ideas of extremist nature or calls for other illegal activities;
- contains insults, threats to other users, individuals or specific organizations, denigrates dignity or undermines business reputations;
- contains insults or messages expressing disrespect to Sputnik;
- violates privacy, distributes personal data of third parties without their consent or violates privacy of correspondence;
- describes or references scenes of violence, cruelty to animals;
- contains information about methods of suicide, incites to commit suicide;
- pursues commercial objectives, contains improper advertising, unlawful political advertisement or links to other online resources containing such information;
- promotes products or services of third parties without proper authorization;
- contains offensive language or profanity and its derivatives, as well as hints of the use of lexical items falling within this definition;
- contains spam, advertises spamming, mass mailing services and promotes get-rich-quick schemes;
- promotes the use of narcotic / psychotropic substances, provides information on their production and use;
- contains links to viruses and malicious software;
- is part of an organized action involving large volumes of comments with identical or similar content ("flash mob");
- “floods” the discussion thread with a large number of incoherent or irrelevant messages;
- violates etiquette, exhibiting any form of aggressive, humiliating or abusive behavior ("trolling");
- doesn’t follow standard rules of the English language, for example, is typed fully or mostly in capital letters or isn’t broken down into sentences.

The administration has the right to block a user’s access to the page or delete a user’s account without notice if the user is in violation of these rules or if behavior indicating said violation is detected.

Users can initiate the recovery of their account / unlock access by contacting the moderators at moderator@sputniknews.com

The letter must contain:

- Subject - the restoration of account / unlock access
- User ID
- An explanation of the actions which were in violation of the rules above and resulted in the lock.

If the moderators deem it possible to restore the account / unlock access, it will be done.

In the case of repeated violations of the rules above resulting in a second block of a user’s account, access cannot be restored.

To contact the team of moderators, write to moderator@sputniknews.com

E-mail:
Password:
Remember me
RegisterForgot your password? Privacy Policy
Other ways to sign in:
Ok