Hungary’s Orban Plans Powerful Agency Against Foreign Influences
11/22/2023 07:02
Hungary plans to set up a powerful new agency to detect “foreign” influences in the increasingly inward-looking European Union nation under Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s more than decade-old rule.
Hungary plans to set up a powerful new agency to detect “foreign” influences in the increasingly inward-looking European Union nation under Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s more than decade-old rule.
Hungary will create a new Sovereignty Protection Agency with ample budgetary and institutional support, including from the intelligence services, to identify purported foreign efforts to influence politics, according to a bill filed by Orban’s ruling party late Tuesday. Orban will pick the agency’s chief.