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\n Elon Musk has taken the side of an MEP allied to Hungarian leader Viktor Orb\u00e1n in a dispute over alleged electoral censorship by Brussels. Euronews looks at the details.
\n ADVERTISEMENTHungarian MEP Andr\u00e1s L\u00e1szl\u00f3 has hit out at what he sees as double standards from Brussels over foreign interference.For years, Fidesz, the ruling party to which L\u00e1szl\u00f3 belongs, has complained about overseas actors \u2014 from Hungarian-American philanthropist George Soros to the US government \u2014 meddling in domestic politics.\u00a0Fidesz leader Viktor Orb\u00e1n has also been accused of limiting media and academic freedom as he attempts to maintain his nearly 15-year grip on power.\u00a0L\u00e1szl\u00f3 claims that the European Commission is adopting a different approach to interference from US-based billionaire Elon Musk, who\u2019s used his influential X platform to call for Germans to vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany in upcoming elections.\u201cLiberal elites want to cancel democracy,\u201d when elections don\u2019t go the right way, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 said in a post on X, adding: “We need to defend our democracies and our sovereignty.”\u00a0His post was immediately endorsed by Musk himself, who bought the social media platform, then known as Twitter, in 2022.\u00a0Euronews takes a deeper look at some of L\u00e1szl\u00f3’s claims.\u00a0This a reference to the US government’s Independent Media Support Fund, which, according to the embassy, aids independent Hungary media outlets, in the light of concerns that Orb\u00e1n clamped down on dissenting voices.It\u2019s part of a Congress-backed programme to support democratic institutions and civil society in Europe and elsewhere, and the US government says recipients can\u2019t be affiliated to any political party.Washington isn’t the only player that’s expressed concerns about the lack of diversity in Hungary. The non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders has described Orb\u00e1n as a \u201cpredator of press freedom\u201d who \u201cbuilt a true media empire subject to his party\u2019s orders.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Those worries also seem shared by the European Commission, which in a July 2024 report cited troubling legal restrictions on the freedom of information, smear campaigns against journalists, and a media regulator that doesn’t comply with international norms on independence.\u00a0This long-running complaint stems from a declassified secret service report which, according to Orb\u00e1n’s spokesperson, showed foreign transactions that “seriously infringe on the sovereignty” of the country. The national parliament then introduced swingeing new legal curbs on what it dubbed foreign interference, a move which opponents criticised as a bid to further silence and stigmatise independent voices.\u00a0\u00a0More independent analysis of the 2022 election, such as that by the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, agreed that unregulated spending by third parties “was not transparent,” but that this “primarily benefited the ruling parties”, namely Orb\u00e1n’s Fidesz.\u00a0In a statement published in February 2021, the Democratic Coalition, the centre-left party that formed part of the coalition opposing Orb\u00e1n, said it “did not ask for, receive or use financial support from abroad”,e and that the State Audit Office that had threatened it with a substantial fine was acting as Orb\u00e1n’s puppet in a bid to silence the party.\u00a0\u00a0ADVERTISEMENTSoros has long been a Fidesz fixation, featuring heavily (and negatively) in its election campaigns. Party allies have long drawn attention to the frequency with which Soros meets senior Brussels officials as problematic.\u00a0Those include a meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker, then Commission President, in 2017, at a time when a new Hungarian law was threatening to close Central European University, a Budapest-based academic institution originally funded by Soros, for its supposedly liberal views.\u00a0\u00a0The University was forced to up sticks to Vienna, though the EU’s top court said Hungary’s actions had breached the law.US-based NGO the Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns against antisemitism, has drawn attention to the \u201cchilling\u201d vehemence of Orb\u00e1n\u2019s anti-Soros campaign, which it it said \u201creminded many observers of Nazi-era propaganda\u201d against Jews.ADVERTISEMENTAccording to the LobbyFacts site, the Open Society Institute, the most prominent NGO supported by Soros, held seven meetings with senior officials at the EU executive in 2023, covering topics from online platform regulation, the metaverse and international development aid.\u00a0L\u00e1szl\u00f3’s post includes a video of former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, calling to “make our laws apply in Europe \u2026 as we have done in Romania”.\u00a0But, in a subsequent post, Breton said he’d been referring to the implementation of the Digital Services Act, which regulates major social media networks, and that the bloc has no power to nullify election results.After the surprise victory of C\u0103lin Georgescu in the Romanian presidential elections last November, the Commission began a probe into whether the video-sharing site TikTok had adequately complied with its EU obligations concerning bias.\u00a0ADVERTISEMENTSeparately, Romania’s own Supreme Court annulled the election, after a declassified intelligence report alleged a Russian propaganda campaign. Experts told Euronews that urgency over alleged interference by the Russian Federation pushed Romanian judges to skip procedures and bypass transparency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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