Hungary is imposing a strict ban on international organizations and media outlets that receive funding from the US and other countries.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a ally of US President Donald Trump, stated that his country was “line by line” with organizations that have received US financial assistance.
Hungary has long implemented crackdowns on NGOs and the country’s independent media, passing laws that, according to critics, seek to stigmatize and impede organizations that offer legal and human rights assistance, expose official corruption, and crackdown on NGOs and independent media.
These international networks must be eliminated right away, according to Orban. “It is necessary to make their existence legally impossible”.
The Hungarian president has only grown more enthusiastic about Trump’s decision to abolish the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which is responsible for providing humanitarian aid overseas.  , He has praised Trump’s slash of funding, claiming such aid had been used to fund organisations that sought to “topple” his government.
Orban argued that individuals who work for organizations that received funding from USAID might be referred to as “agents.”
According to Orban, “every money coming from America should be made public, and those who receive it should be subject to sanctions.”
The Sovereignty Protection Office, an independent body that Orban’s right-wing government designated as having the power to investigate individuals and media outlets that it believes are influencing foreign policy, was established in 2023.
Source: Aljazeera
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