Hungary May Force NGOs To Report Foreign Funding
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published February 08, 2017 | 10:30 PM
BUDAPEST, Feb 8, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 08th Feb, 2017 ) - Hungarian NGOs will have to declare foreign funding or face suspension under a proposal to be submitted to parliament, an official from the governing right-wing Fidesz party said Wednesday.
The draft bill would force non-governmental organisations receiving "considerable" foreign funds to reveal the exact amount. "Hungarians should know for example if the foreign financing of a civil organisation's activity is more than 5 to 10 percent of its budget," Lajos Kosa, leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group, told reporters in Budapest.
If an NGO does not disclose the information, "it will not be able to continue its activity," and could have its tax number suspended, he said.
The draft bill, details of which have yet to be published, is to be 0submitted around April, according to a schedule on the parliament's website.
Hungarian NGOs have long felt the heat under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, but they now fear that the self-declared fan of US President Donald Trump will turn the screws even tighter. According to Hungarian branch of the Helsinki Committee, a human rights group critical of the government's refugee policies, NGOs are already under strict obligations to report annually on their funding, both domestic and foreign.
"The planned legislation is a political campaign tool aimed at discrediting independent, government-critical NGOs," Andras Kadar, the Hungarian branch's co-head, told AFP in an email.
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