Hungary's Orbán promises crackdown on media, NGOs

Hungary’s Orbán, facing opposition surge, promises crackdown in speech laden with conspiracy theory
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is vowing to rid his country of foreign-funded groups, calling them a “shadow army” serving the European Union and a “liberal American empire.”
Hungary's Orbán promises crackdown on media, NGOs in a speech laden with conspiracy theory
In a conspiracy theory-laden address, which coincided with a national holiday commemorating Hungary’s 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule, Viktor Orbán told a group of several thousand select supporters that Hungary in the coming weeks will uproot media outlets and other organizations that have received funding from abroad,
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Orbán vows crackdown on foreign-funded media and NGOs
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has promised to rid his country of those he believes are working for the interests of foreign nations. He stated that his right-wing government would dismantle a global "shadow army" serving the European Union and the "liberal American empire,
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