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Hungarian Prime Minister Orban invented the campaign against stockbroker George Soros. Now Bulgaria's parliament is "investigating" the 95-year-old. There are anti-Soros campaigns in other countries in Southeast Europe as well.
Influential Bulgarian oligarch Delian Peevski has long wanted to see a parliamentary investigation into the activities of American stockbroker and philanthropist George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF) in Bulgaria. But the necessary parliamentary majority for such a step has been lacking for years. And last week, that majority was finally achieved.
A Bulgarian Parliament commission called the "Ad-hoc Commission to Investigate the Activities of George and Alexander Soros and Their Foundations on the Territory of Bulgaria" will soon begin its work.
The commission will report on which individuals and organizations are supported by the Soros father and son and who has received money from their OSF foundation.
No legal consequences are currently foreseen against individuals and organizations associated with Soros and his foundations.
However, the Bulgarian parliament may at some point - following the model of the Russian law "against foreign agents" adopted in 2012 - undertake such an attempt. In February 2025, there was an attempt, but the draft law failed to gain the necessary majority to pass it in parliament. Until there is a majority for this, such attempts will remain a kind of propaganda and public exposure: The point is to be able to denigrate as a "Sorosoid" - this is an offensive word in Bulgarian - anyone who has allegedly or actually had anything to do with the liberal philanthropist.
The initiator of this bill, Delyan Peevski, has been one of the most prominent figures involved in scandals in Bulgaria's post-communist history for 20 years, and his name is associated with a series of entanglements between organized crime and high-level politics. The US and the UK have sanctioned the businessman and media mogul and seized part of his assets abroad. But despite this, in Bulgaria, which is a member of the EU, Peevski continues to have a strong influence on politics. In the debate on the investigative committee in parliament, he said: "The time has come for a decisive battle. The false world of Soros and the Sorosoids must be destroyed."
Hungary country of origin
The idea that the accusations of corruption and criminality against him should be used in the opposite direction against all those who oppose him, calling them "agents of Soros" is not Peevski's. This idea was born in Viktor Orban's Hungary. There, media close to the government for the first time in 2013 began to systematically list how much money and when independent civil organizations and people critical of the government had received from the OSF foundation.
Since the 2015 migration crisis, the government of Prime Minister Orban has waged a major state campaign against Soros for the first time, using anti-Semitic and right-wing extremist narratives. In George Soros's homeland, this leaves a particularly bitter taste: The stock market billionaire is of Hungarian-Jewish descent and survived the Holocaust in Budapest as a young man. He has been accused by the Orban government of planning a population exchange in Europe or of embodying international greed, i.e. of Jewish financial capital, which is extorting nation states.
Orbán's aggressive campaigns against Soros culminated in several laws, including the so-called "Stop Soros Package" in 2018, through which Orbán's critics and independent organizations were financially destroyed in order to silence them. They were later declared illegal by the European Court of Justice without exception. But their propaganda effect has remained.
In Hungary, however, the stigmatization of Soros as an enemy figure seems to have worn off. Instead of the stock market billionaire, Orbán's propaganda is now using Ukraine as the new hotbed of evil. However, the Hungarian campaigns against Soros have now spread as a model to almost all countries in Southeast Europe.
North Macedonia
One of the first Eastern European countries to adopt the anti-Soros campaign model after Hungary was Macedonia (since February 2019, called North Macedonia). In early 2017, the "Stop-Operation-Soros" movement was founded there, whose representatives were close to the leader of the right-wing nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party and the strongman in Macedonia at the time, Nikola Gruevski. The latter had been forced to resign from office a year earlier (2016) under pressure from the massive civil movement for reform and against corruption. He accused the protesters against his government of being "led by Soros."
Poland
In Poland, the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) copied Viktor Orban's campaign against Soros from 2015 to 2023. In 2017/18, PiS launched campaigns against "non-governmental criminal organizations" that it said were "remotely controlled by Soros and Russia," despite the inconsistency that Soros had already been stylized as an enemy figure in Russia.
Në fushtat elektorale 2019 dhe 2023 narrativa anti-Soros e PiS dhe të tjerave parti nacionaliste të djathta luajti një rol të madh. "Rrjeti Soros", pra organizatat civile dhe mediet "e blera nga Sorosi" po kërcënojnë kombin dhe po destabilizojnë shoqërinë polake, thuhej.
Edhe presidenti polak i zgjedhur në qershor 2025 Karol Navrocki përdor narrativën anti-Soros. Ai akuzoi p.sh. kundërshtarin e tij në fushatën elektorale Rafal Trzaskovski, se "paguhet nga fondacionet gjermane dhe nga Sorosi" duke e paraqitur veten si "mbrojtës të sigurisë së Polonisë".
Serbi
Në Serbi presidenti Aleksandar Vuçiq, përfaqësues të partisë së tij në pushtet SNS dhe mediat pro-qeveritare prej vitesh ndjekin narrativën, se organizatat e pavarura joqeveritare, personat kritikë ndaj qeverisë dhe lëvizjet civile të protestës nxiten nga "agjentë huaj" dhe "financohen nga Sorosi".
Në protestat aktuale, që po vazhdojnë prej një viti kundër qeverisjes së tij Vuçiq nuk flet vet në mënyrë eksplicite për Sorosin si nxitësi në prapaskenë, por konsideron se "shërbimet e huaja sekrete" dhe "fondet nga jashtë" janë financues të "revolucionit të ngjyrave". Në mediat besnike ndaj Vuçiqit, si gazeta bulevardeske Informer, herë pas here botohen kryeartikuj të tillë si: "Sekreti i Sorosit' Loja! Dora e përgjakur vjen nga Shqipëria në Beograd: Protestat në Serbi janë vetëm fillimi i destabilizimit të Ballkanit".
Sllovakia
Në Sllovakikryeministri Robert Fico, i cili në tetor 2023 mori mandatin e katërt, ndoqi një shembull në legjsliacion nga vendi fqinj Hungaria. Që nga qershori 2025 ka hyrë në fuqi ligji i iniciuar nga qeveria e tij, që i detyron organizatat joqeveritare për "raporte transparence". Përpara nismës ligjore Fico dhe përfaqësues qeverisë dhe partisë së tij Drejtimi-Socialdemokracia (SMER-SD) akuzuan Sorosin dhe "agjentët e huaj" se vazhdimisht influencojnë në Sllovaki.
Fico vet e akuzoi lëvizjen e protestëts, që më 2018 çoi ndër të tjera në dorëheqjen e tij, se është "financuar nga rrjeti i Sorosit". Duke argumentuar ligjin e tij në fuqi që nga qershori "ligji i transparencës" ai thotë, se "të gjithë në Sllovaki duhet ta dinë, se cilën këngë këndon secila organizatë joqeveritare".
Edhe në vende si Çekia, Rumania, Kroacia dhe Mali i Zi ka pasur në të shkuarën vazhdimisht fushata të politikanëve nacionalistë të djathtë dhe populistë kundër Sorosit dhe rrjetit të tij. Por ligje kundër organizatave joqeveritare si në Hungari dhe Sllovaki nuk janë miratuar.
Shqipëria rast i veçantë
A special case in the anti-Soros narrative in Southeast Europe has long been Albania. This narrative is used by the opposition, but not the government. The opposition uses this narrative as a criticism of Prime Minister Edi Rama (SP), who has been in office since 2013 and often prefers to use authoritarian methods of governance. The national-conservative Democratic Party (PD) accuses Rama of being a "shining beacon of Sorosism". George Soros and his son Alexander, according to the opposition, have been implementing a secret plan with Rama since 2013 to stay in power in Albania for the long term through judicial, cost-cutting and electoral reform./DW
Nuk I ngjan Zao pak Alexis,,,,?