The prime minister has information that Weber has been approached by “lobbyists” and he wrote to the group leader to warn him of “statements based on false information” concerning the “Soros university” recently made by politicians “otherwise well-wishing and friendly towards Hungary”, the portal said.

One of those statements suggested that the Hungarian government aimed to close down a university thus violating the freedom of education, it added. In his letter, Orbán said it had been established that the false information had come from organisations or people associated with Hungarian born US financier George Soros, and recommended the Hungarian government’s official statements as “describing the actual legal situation,” Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister’s press chief, said, confirming Origo’s information.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.

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