Hungary’s populist right-wing government has offered a robust defense of its plans to curtail foreign-backed civil society groups and suggested the change in the US administration means a new era is at hand. In comments that will alarm many non-government organisations, an official spokesman for Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, confirmed there would be changes to the rules governing civil activists, many of whom he accused of behaving like de facto politicians. In a telephone interview, Orbán’s spokesman Zoltán Kovács did little to allay those concerns and appeared to suggest the end of Barack Obama’s presidency would usher in a climate more favorable to marginalizing CSOs. More information is available here.
Source: The Guardian