Soros to keep funding NGOs in Hungary despite government hostility


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Jan 2017

Business magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London, Britain June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations will keep working with and financing NGOs in Hungary despite the Hungarian government saying that any civil society group they should be "swept out", the head of the Foundations said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party's vice chairman Szilard Nemeth told a news conference on Tuesday that "these organisations must be pushed back with all available tools".

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