Source: US News & World Report
“Hungary’s ruling party has postponed a parliamentary debate and vote set for mid-June on transparency legislation governing foreign-funded groups, a senior party official said, following protests that it seemed aimed at stifling political dissent. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party submitted a bill to parliament on May 14 that would draft a list of organisations that get foreign funding and restrict or even shut them down if deemed to threaten Hungary’s sovereignty and its culture. … ‘The (Fidesz) parliamentary group is united in the view that legal instruments must be used to protect sovereignty. However, there is debate over what those instruments should be,’ Fidesz parliamentary party leader Máté Kocsis told index.hu. He said that so many proposals had been submitted regarding the bill in recent weeks that the debate needed to be postponed until the autumn session of parliament.” (06/04/25)