According to a recent study published by the Center for Fundamental Rights, Hungarian American financier George Soros’ foundation spent a total of $90 million funding NGOs headquartered in Brussels, Belgium between 2016 and 2023.
In the last year of the examined period, the year before the 2024 European Parliamentary elections, the amount of funding tripled from the year before, the Budapest-based conservative think tank also found. The Open Society Foundation spent $30 million on NGOs in the Belgian capital in 2023, which is also tenfold of what they spent in 2016. The Center believes it is evident that the Soros network, infamous for pushing for open borders and modern gender ideology, tried to move public opinion within the EU ahead of the EP election.
‘It is clear from the publicly available list of donation recipients that these funds have been used for globalist networking and are thus part of the worldwide political corruption scandal that has erupted over US decisions affecting USAID,’ the press release by the Center goes on to write.
With President Trump’s administration in the US abruptly defunding USAID upon taking office, some speculated that George Soros’ foundations would take on more of the burden of funding progressive NGOs and media organizations across the world. Center for Fundamental Rights Director General Miklós Szánthó has also talked about this scenario on multiple occasions during his public appearances. If the trajectory of the Open Society Foundation’s spending continues, this very well might be the case.
The Center has listed which organizations had received the most funding from George Soros’ organization in the eight-year period included in the study.
Roma Foundation for Europe, an NGO dedicated to the advancement of the Romani people, got the highest amount, $20.230 million. They are followed by the International Partnership for Human Rights in a distant second place, with $8.237 million received. This group is described by the press release as ‘activists who have broken away from the international Helsinki Committee for Human Rights’; and who have stated that Hungary ‘has implemented undemocratic measures against NGOs’. Coming in in third place is the NEF Network of European Foundation for Innovative Cooperation, receiving $8.126 million.
The centre’s press release also gave a general overview of the top recipient organizations, writing: ‘Looking at the list of the TOP 30, it is clear that in this case, too, we are talking about ideological and political support: there are many human rights fundamentalists, pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ, pro-migration, “fact-checkers” and youth organizations.’
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