NGOs involved in Hungarian politics will continue to provide information about their foreign donors, Reuters reported referring to PM Viktor Orban.

His remarks after the EU's top court said Hungary’s stance on overseas funding violated EU law. 

Hungarian law was part of the measures taken by the Orban government against unfair foreign influence in connection with its disagreements with US billionaire George Soros, who was born in Budapest.

Orban accused non-governmental organizations (NGOs) funded by Soros of political interference. Soros denied the allegations, saying that these were lies to create a false external enemy to distract the Hungarians.

On Friday, responding to an EU court ruling, Orban said that Hungary would respect the court ruling on funding civil organizations, but transparency rules would apply.

“All Hungarians will know about every and each forint worth of funding sent here from abroad for political purposes,” he told state radio. “It wont be difficult to adhere to this court ruling.” He did not go into further detail.

According to him, the court decision was connected with the circles of “liberal imperialism” in Western Europe, who want to impose their thinking on family issues, migration to countries “who think differently”, such as Hungary. “International courts are often part of this network,” he said.

Soros, a Jewish-born Jew who spent most of his fortune on financing democratic and human rights groups, was repeatedly targeted by the Orban's government.

In 2017, the Hungarian government launched a campaign against migrants before the election in 2018, depicting a smiling Soros with the inscription: “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh.”

The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Federations (Mazsihisz) urged Orban to stop the campaign, and eventually the government stopped it. However, he strongly denied that the campaign was anti-Semitic.