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Hungary enacts Act LXXVI of 2017 on foreign-funded organisations

On 13 June 2017 the National Assembly adopted Act LXXVI of 2017 on the transparency of organisations receiving support from abroad, requiring NGOs above a donation threshold to register as foreign-funded. In the causal graph this event weakens Civic Space, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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On 13 June 2017 the National Assembly adopted Act LXXVI of 2017 on the transparency of organisations receiving support from abroad, requiring NGOs above a donation threshold to register as foreign-funded. The Court of Justice later held the statute breached free movement of capital and the Charter. This Fact is that dated statute. It is not Stop Soros (2018), not the Sovereignty Protection Office (2023), and not a personality. Official text sits in the National Legal Database; the CJEU judgment in Commission v Hungary (C-78/18) is the independent file.

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  • Viktor Orbán

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    Prime minister whose government or governing majority advanced the named measure. The institutional source ties the measure to the governing legal program under Orbán. Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 is stored only because contributions.size is NOT NULL — not a sourced magnitude. Attached by Pack6 land-now subset; the fact's own primary source documents the measure.

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  1. 1.2025 Rule of Law Report – Country Chapter on HungaryEuropean Commission · verified
  2. 2.Judgment in Case C-78/18 Commission v Hungary (Transparency of associations), press release 73/20Court of Justice of the European Union · verified

Causal path

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  1. ActorViktor Orbán
  2. contributed toFactHungary enacts Act LXXVI of 2017 on foreign-funded organisations
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Civic Space
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Hungary enacts Act LXXVI of 2017 on foreign-funded organisations. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/hu-lex-ngo-2017

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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