HUNGARY’S re-elected Prime Minister Viktor Orban could be planning a “Stop [George] Soros” package clamping down on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) funded by foreigners, a spokesman for his Fidesz party said today.

The move could inflame tensions with the European Union, which has already taken his government to the European Court of Justice over its bid to close the Central European University, an institution founded by the Hungarian-US billionaire which Budapest views as a propaganda base.

Mr Soros uses his Open Society Foundations philanthropic fund to promote his political views, which range from support for “free markets” and the liberalisation of drug laws through promoting euthanasia to regime change in Zimbabwe.