Hungary targets critics with bill that would blacklist critical media and NGOs

With a new law, Hungary's Prime Minister Orban wants to limit the activities of many non-governmental organisations even more. A blacklist is planned for NGOs financed from abroad and high penalties.

Hungary's government is planning a new law: non-governmental organisations that receive money from abroad are threatened with stronger control and high penalties. The opposition feels reminded of Russia.

Hungary is obviously afraid of non-governmental organisations receiving funds from abroad, which will be blacklisted in the future. "Injuries" of traditional values should also have severe consequences.

A new Hungarian law proposal expands the powers of the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty to discipline foreign-funded media and NGOs.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party posted a controversial bill in Parliament on Wednesday, which critics see as a Russian-based attack on civil society, writes POLITICO.

Hungary targets critics with bill that would blacklist media and NGOs

The nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a bill late Tuesday that would allow the government to monitor, restrict, penalize and potentially ban organizations it deems a threat to national sovereignty.