Brussels financing ‘pro-migration’ influence operations, says the Hungarian government
The Sovereignty Protection Office on Monday said funds distributed by Brussels were playing an increasingly greater role in the operation of a “progressive pressure network” focused on supporting migration.
The office said in a statement that the European Commission was excluding European Union member states from certain decision-making processes in order to distribute funds according to its own political agenda, arguing that member states had no say in the use of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund.
Instead, the office said, the fund was used to support “pressure groups” like the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants, and the Subjective Values Foundation. The office said most of the funds’ Hungarian recipients also received a significant amount of funding from US billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
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The office said the groups in question used their projects to support the influx of migrants and cast migration in a positive light with the aim of diverting member states’ migration policies. Strategic lawsuits aimed at establishing the primacy of EU law over national legislation on migration-related issues also played an important role in these groups’ activities, the statement added.
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They warned that attempts to “force the European Commission’s migration policy onto member states” risked weakening Hungary’s social cohesion and served the interests of the “progressive pressure networks” rather than those of the Hungarian people.
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