Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) is the latest casualty in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s war on liberalism and free expression. Earlier today the Hungarian Parliament approved an amendment to a higher education law that would, per the New York Times, “restrict the independence of universities that offer diplomas from countries where they do not…
Hungary approved a new law in a fast-track procedure on Tuesday that could force a university founded by financier George Soros out of the country despite a protest against the plan in Budapest and condemnation abroad. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a staunch critic of liberal civil organizations funded by Soros, said on Friday the Central…
(JTA) — Radio host and Donald Trump supporter Alex Jones ranted about “the Jewish mafia,” which he said was run by Jewish billionaire George Soros. Jones was responding to a caller to his radio show who claimed that “the Jewish mafia” was supporting efforts by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to “derail the Trump presidency.”…
George Soros has long been a target of the Kremlin, which has seen a conspiracy and a threat to its power in the billionaire’s funding of democratic elements in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. That line now seems to have been adopted by a few Republican congressmen, who sent a letter this week to Secretary…
George Soros has been a fierce critic of President Donald Trump, denouncing him at a recent conference in Switzerland as a “would-be dictator.” But that doesn’t mean he’s above doing business with the president’s in-laws — the billionaire investor is said to have given $250 million in credit to Jared Kushner and Joshua Kushner’s real estate…
(JTA) — Billionaire George Soros called Donald Trump a “would-be dictator” who is “going to fail.” On the eve of Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Soros on Thursday said during a panel discussion in Davos, Switzerland, that President-elect Trump was “gearing up for a trade war,” which would have “a very far-reaching effect in Europe and…
Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire George Soros predicted Thursday that Donald Trump will fail at his presidency and unleash uncertainty on markets. “I personally am convinced that he’s going to fail,” Soros said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Not because of people like me who would like him to fail, but because the ideas…
Billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations will keep working with and financing NGOs in Hungary despite the Hungarian government saying that any civil society group they should be “swept out,” the head of the Foundations said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party’s vice chairman Szilard Nemeth told a news conference on Tuesday that…
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