Row over anti-Soros campaign

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).Euro|Topics reported that posters had gone up all over Hungary in July 2017 depicting Jewish US billionaire George Soros in a way that many find reminiscent of anti-Semitic Nazi posters. Soros, who has Hungarian roots, was a key financier of NGOs and educational institutions in Eastern Europe and across the globe. Why do Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and other politicians see him as an enemy?

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Orbán names Soros and EU among those ‘attacking’ Hungary http://www.europeansources.info/record/orban-names-soros-and-eu-among-those-attacking-hungary/

ESO: Background information: Protests in Hungary over proposal on higher education institutions http://www.europeansources.info/record/protests-in-hungary-over-proposal-on-higher-education-institutions/

European Parliament: Press Release, 17.05.17: Fundamental rights in Hungary: MEPs call for triggering Article 7 http://www.europeansources.info/record/fundamental-rights-in-hungary-meps-call-for-triggering-article-7/

The Guardian, 12.07.17: George Soros upset by 'antisemitic' campaign against him in Hungary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/george-soros-upset-by-anti-semitic-campaign-against-him-in-hungary

BBC News, 11.07.17: George Soros: Hungarian government posters 'anti-Semitic' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40576224

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