EU rights agency criticises govt anti-Soros campaign, anti-Semitism in Hungary

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has issued its annual report on discrimination in the bloc and referred to the Hungarian government's advertisement campaign that focused on US billionaire George Soros as anti-Semitic. The agency said anti-Semitism took many forms, noting that the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (Mazsihisz) had called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban to stop the government's campaign against Soros. Hungary's ruling Fidesz party said in reaction to the report that "George Soros has people everywhere, this organisation included". Balazs Hidveghi, Fidesz's communications chief, said that the report "reflects lies about Hungary as earlier propagated by the Soros network".