🚨🚨This bleak news from #Hungary on their new bill, "On the Transparency of Public Life"- which allows the Sovereignty Protection Office to blacklist organizations receiving foreign funding if it deems them a “threat” to national sovereignty- has been under-reported.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-fidesz-party-hungary-russia-democracy-transparency-public-life-civil-society/

May 14, 2025 - 18:28 UTC

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I feel sorry for the Hungarians but this has to end...
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Orbán’s Fidesz party submitted this controversial bill to parliament today in what critics rightly see as an attack on civil society. It gives extensive powers to the Sovereignty Protection Office which was established in Dec 2023 to investigate any groups/individual recipients of foreign funding.
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The proposed bill is part of a broader pattern of #democraticbacksliding in Hungary, where Orbán’s government has increasingly targeted independent institutions and dissenting voices. It also echoes Russia’s “foreign agent” law that the Kremlin uses to suppress NGOs and independent voices. /3
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As I just wrote in my blog this week, it doesn't look like Orban will accept losing power in a democratic election
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Sounds like what FOTUS wants to do.
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Coming soon to the United States
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