Orban Plans Tougher NGO Law in Showdown With European Party Ally
- Hungarian leader to continue crackdown on Soros-linked NGOs
- Orban’s party risks expulsion from EPP group in EU Parliament
Viktor Orban
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Hungary’s new cabinet will toughen a planned legislative crack-down on non-governmental organizations, raising the stakes in a democracy debate that threatens the ruling party’s membership in a key European political group.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s cabinet will make its “Stop Soros” law -- named after the Hungarian-born U.S. investor and philanthropist George Soros -- tougher than a version advanced before Orban’s landslide election victory a month ago, his chief of staff Antal Rogan told reporters on Monday. The cabinet will seek to amend the constitution to make the legislation tougher.