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KOVÁCS: 'SOROS POLITICAL PLAYER FOR DECADES'

Hungarian state secretary for international communications and relations Zoltán Kovács has told the BBC in an interview that financier George Soros became a political player two decades ago.
 

This was clear from Soros’s own statements as well as from the activities of the Open Society Foundation and Project Syndicate, which he said were the main conduits of the billionaire’s ideas about Europe.
Soros’s institutional network wields great power without ever having had an electoral mandate, he added. NGOs linked to Soros have nothing to do with civil society, he said, adding that civil society is something that is built from the ground up. Asked about an allegation by the head of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee NGO concerning harassment by the government, Kovács said the dispute was with a few dozen organisations and had nothing to do with civil groups run by ordinary people. He said that ever since the migration crisis, the gap between the “western European left-liberal political elite” and voters in European Union member states had grown.
Meanwhile, Kovács denied that the Central European University had left Budapest, saying that only one part of the CEU’s activities, which breached Hungarian laws, had left the country.