(ANSA-AFP) - BUDAPEST, FEB 7 - Hungary is planning to outlaw
NGOs that receive funds from the United States, Prime Minister
Viktor Orban said Friday, taking inspiration from US President
Donald Trump's crackdown on foreign aid. Orban, one of Trump's
closest allies in the European Union, praised the president's
move to hobble his government's humanitarian agency USAID,
describing it as a "cleansing wind" and a "Trump tornado". "All
money coming from America should be disclosed and those who
receive it should be sanctioned. Money from abroad cannot be
accepted to influence Hungarian politics," Orban said in his
weekly interview with state radio. The nationalist leader has
long accused political opponents, NGOs and media outlets of
serving foreign interests, and called USAID money a "tool of
political influence". (ANSA-AFP).
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