# Hungary enacts the Stop Soros package

Date: 2018

In June 2018 Parliament criminalised some assistance to asylum seekers and related NGO work, marketed as Stop Soros. UNHCR and the Commission challenged the package. It is a completed criminal-law act.

## People

- Viktor Orbán: https://factrail.ai/people/viktor-orban

## Drivers

- Illiberal state capture in Hungary: https://factrail.ai/drivers/orban-illiberal-state-capture
- Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control: https://factrail.ai/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/20/hungary-asylum-seekers-denied-food-hungarys-border
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62018CJ0821

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hu-stop-soros-2018