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Behind Hungary's Latest Move Against George Soros
The attack on the liberal financier's university in Budapest was long expected. Now what?
Will protests make a difference?
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On walls, pillars and billboards across Budapest, the far-right Jobbik party has plastered the face of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and assorted cronies above a simple slogan: "They Steal."
Corruption has been an increasingly salient feature of Orban's rule, but the heist most recently contemplated by Orban and his Fidesz party, which dominates Hungary's parliament, is an unusual one: They want to steal a university.