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George Soros foundation's office to pull out of Hungary
https://www.todayonline.com/world/soros-foundations-office-pull-out-hungary ^

Posted on 05/15/2018 1:10:07 AM PDT by GraceG

BUDAPEST - George Soros' foundation said on Tuesday it would close its office in Budapest and move to Berlin, leaving what it called "an increasingly repressive political and legal environment" in Hungary.

The pro-democracy group said it was pulling out a day after the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced it would tighten restrictions on non-governmental organizations, under a law dubbed the "Stop Soros " bill.

Orban, who won a landslide election victory last month, has repeatedly accused Soros and his organization of encouraging migrants and undermining the national culture.

Soros's Open Society Foundations (OSF) organization said it would continue to support human rights work in Hungary as well as projects linked to arts, media freedom, transparency, education and health care.

But it would move its Budapest-based international operations and staff to Germany.

"The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain, using tactics unprecedented in the history of the European Union," OSF president Patrick Gaspard said in a statement.

Opposition and rights groups have long said that a departure of the OSF would mark a milestone in a slide towards authoritarian rule in Hungary and go against the principles of the EU - a charge dismissed by the government.

(Excerpt) Read more at todayonline.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budapest; europeanunion; georgesoros; hungary; orban; osf; patrickgaspard; sonderkommando; soros; viktororban
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Good for Hungary!
1 posted on 05/15/2018 1:10:07 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG

Ha! Go Orban!


2 posted on 05/15/2018 1:11:14 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: GraceG

wonderful for Hungary!
but SorozNazi can still undermine Hungary from outside
so they gotta keep a close guard up...

NOW can USA please PLEEZ put a stop to the SorozNazi sedition?


3 posted on 05/15/2018 1:11:39 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: pookie18
The Soros foundation ad campaign was pretty bad though...


4 posted on 05/15/2018 1:11:44 AM PDT by GraceG ("Q is dead, been dead a for a while...")
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To: GraceG

Great country. Beautiful women. No Syrian invasion force. No Soros.


5 posted on 05/15/2018 1:21:18 AM PDT by Rastus
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To: GraceG

“Now, stay TFO!”


6 posted on 05/15/2018 1:28:24 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Rastus

Mohammedans => 0.3%


7 posted on 05/15/2018 1:30:36 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: GraceG

You must be Rick and Morty fan, or , at least , hungry for apples.


8 posted on 05/15/2018 2:06:47 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: GraceG

Projection, all I see is left wing projection.

Soros probably is moving it because of possible risk of asset seizure.


9 posted on 05/15/2018 3:20:01 AM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo or Rip Van Sessions?)
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To: GraceG

Make their last day a national holiday, Orban.


10 posted on 05/15/2018 3:35:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Fhios

And/or evidence seizure.


11 posted on 05/15/2018 3:36:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: GraceG
"...an increasingly repressive political and legal environment..."

The irony...

12 posted on 05/15/2018 3:39:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: GraceG

Got him on the run.

“There’s a killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad” “ The End” Jim Morrison


13 posted on 05/15/2018 3:54:28 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: GraceG

Sorry. “Riders on the storm”.


14 posted on 05/15/2018 3:56:15 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: GraceG

Orban should not let them get away to Berlin. They will still be causing a lot of treasonous crimes, albeit from afar.

Now is the time to go on offense. Round them all up and execute them. Orban will be doing the world a great favor.


15 posted on 05/15/2018 4:02:43 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Ken H

Soros knows the gig is up in Hungary. What other perfect place to set up shop, then Berlin?


16 posted on 05/15/2018 4:35:40 AM PDT by MGunny
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To: GraceG

It’s another great move by Orban!


17 posted on 05/15/2018 5:05:17 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: GraceG

Stomped that cockroach!


18 posted on 05/15/2018 5:18:50 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: GraceG

Victor Orban is truly a great man. If America and Europe want to salvage any sort of a future, he is the model.

Hungary and Poland are lighting the way for Christian civilization.


19 posted on 05/15/2018 5:19:38 AM PDT by crusader71
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To: GraceG

It’s a shame that no one was injured.


20 posted on 05/15/2018 5:27:30 AM PDT by The Toll
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