The right-wing populist government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán launched a poster campaign against the EU, DPA reported.
The posters plastered on streets across Hungary show Alexander Soros – the son of Hungarian-born liberal investor George Soros – next to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and a caption that reads: “Let’s not dance to their whistle”.
The campaign echoes a similar campaign from 2019 that featured then-European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker next to George Soros himself. The posters were taken down after criticism from the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), which at the time included Orbán’s FIDES party. “FIDES” left the EPP in 2021.
A European Commission spokesman said von der Leyen was “not at all outraged” when she saw the posters. It’s not the first time and probably won’t be the last, he added. According to the spokesman, as far as he knows, there are no business relations between von der Leyen and Soros. He added that anti-Semitism will not be tolerated. Soros is a Jew and a survivor of the Holocaust, DPA notes.
Pro-government media in Hungary have hinted that Alexander Soros is responsible for international criticism of Hungary’s Child Protection Act, which calls into question a provision in it that says homosexuality should not be explained to children and they should be protected from publication on the subject.
The Hungarian government recently published a questionnaire for its citizens containing EU-related questions. One of the eleven questions in that questionnaire falsely suggests that the bloc intends to create migrant ghettos in Hungary, DPA said.
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