George Soros is moving his charity out of Budapest as a result of the “increasingly repressive political and legal environment” AKOS STILLER/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGESViktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister, has spent more than €100 million of state funds on propaganda to demonise George Soros, the financier’s charity said yesterday as it announced that it was pulling out of Budapest. Open Society Foundations said that it would move its office to Berlin in the face of an “increasingly repressive political and legal environment” under the nationalist government. Patrick Gaspard, president of the charity set up by the Hungarian-born billionaire, said: “The government of Hungary has denigrated and misrepresented our work and repressed civil society for the sake of political gain, using tactics unprecedented in the history of the European Union. Over the past two years, the Hungarian government has spent more than €100 million in public funds on a…

Source: The Times May 15, 2018 16:14 UTC