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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
How Hungary Ran George Soros Out of Town
PARIS—Has Hungary’s Viktor Orbán won this round against the European Union? The
announcement Tuesday
that George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) will move its headquarters out of Budapest and set up shop in Berlin, a victim of the Orbán government’s crackdown on foreign NGOs, certainly seems to indicate as much. The question now is will the European Union push back? And how?
Orbán, whose right-wing, increasingly authoritarian Fidesz party secured another term in Hungary’s national elections last month, has for years been waging an escalating war against Soros. The billionaire financier and philanthropist escaped Nazi-occupied Hungary as a boy, and his foundation has been funding
civil-society initiatives
in Hungary and across Eastern Europe since before the end of the Cold War, as well as programs in Hungary and across Europe aimed at supporting immigrants.
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