Hungary's right-wing Fidesz government has been accused of undermining basic democratic norms and harking back to the country's totalitarian past for launching an offensive against non-government organisations. At the centre of the furore is 86 year-old Hungarian-born philanthropist George Soros. His Open Society Foundations (OSF) are active in 100 countries, and have supported civil groups in Eastern Europe and the Balkans since the mid-1980s. When they were in opposition, leading Fidesz figures were themselves beneficiaries of the OSF. Fidesz officials and pro-government media accuse the NGOs of representing an unelected, meddling, liberal elite whose time has gone. Soros-funded groups now...
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