Hungary outlines 'Stop Soros' legislation against immigration


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Jan 2018

FILE PHOTO - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a joint news conference with Ireland's Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (not pictured) in Budapest, Hungary January 4, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's nationalist government outlined legislation on Wednesday to tackle illegal immigration that it says is undermining European stability and has been stoked in part by U.S. financier George Soros.

Right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban is embroiled in an escalating feud with Soros, who has rejected an extended Hungarian government campaign against him as "distortions and lies" meant to create a false external enemy.

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