The evidence is already there.
Articles fearing the Mathias Corvinus Collegium appear one after another: the Soros network is afraid that the talent agency will succeed in promoting conservative and patriotic thinking in Western Europe.
Within a short time, a coordinated attack was launched in Germany, Austria and Hungary against Central Europe's most important talent agency, the Mathias Corvinus Collegium - the threads lead to György Soros.
An email exchange has been leaked in which Berlin's elite business school, ESMT, inquires with the German foreign ministry about how MCC should be evaluated.
The answer came from Julia Gross, Germany's ambassador to Budapest: "The MCC is the cadre factory of the governing party, Fidesz, a propaganda school."
The letter was published by Correctiv, but the paper itself immediately began to frame what happened according to its own narrative, since in the first paragraph it claims that Viktor Orbán is a "much-criticized right-wing populist". Based on Spiegel's investigative report, the portal is financed by the György Soros foundation, for example, it has already received 100,000 euros in order to expose "fake news spreading on Facebook" - i.e., those that are fake news according to the leftist narrative.
Correctiv published further details from the ambassador's assessment, the diplomat wrote that the MCC manages to attract German speakers from conservative to very conservative, and conducts active and effective propaganda.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in its report that it hopes that studies in Germany will have a significant impact on Hungarian students and will bring them out of the "Fidesz bubble".
In its response, ESMT - which is supported by companies such as BMW, Lufthansa and Deutsche Bank - defended the partnership with MCC, thanks to which Hungarian students can study free of charge at one of the best universities in Europe with a scholarship.
This is not the first time that in Germany they have tried to prevent the cooperation between the ESMT and the MCC: for example, the author of the Tagesspiegel demanded the immediate termination of the contract, in which he found a supporter in the person of Michael Roth - according to the politician of the Social Democrats, the MCC "does not suit free Berlin".
Some extremely anti-Hungarian, left-wing Germans are trying to prevent the students of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium from studying with a scholarship, free of charge, at one of Europe's best universities.
Moreover, it was not "only" the institutions, the world-renowned experts who were under attack: the management of the German National Academic Foundation, which operates with state funds, was afraid of a single liberal journalist, and therefore did not allow its scholarship holder, Werner J. Patzel, who shares values with Hungary and the MCC, to professor to give a lecture on conservatism.
Like Germany, Austria is also trying to obstruct the work of the MCC on all available fronts, and they are not selective in choosing excuses for this.
Falter, which recently operated as a simple program booklet and has now become a left-wing propaganda paper funded by NGOs, also dedicated a multi-page article to the MCC, in which it formulates the "usual" accusations: it is the mouthpiece of the Putin-friendly Hungarian government, which operates in a country where there is no democracy, otherwise it echoes Viktor Orbán's narrative.
The profile of Falter - which previously focused on cinema and theater shows - has changed a lot in recent years, György Soros visited them personally, and countless articles were written about the situation of the Soros foundations: based on the framing, everyone who receives money from them is doing well and is self-destructive , who does not wish to cooperate with them.
Another Austrian liberal newspaper, Der Standard, was previously upset that the rainbow flag was not hoisted at the entrance of Modul University, which was purchased by MCC, in accordance with the rules in force since the establishment of the institution. The chairman of MCC's board of trustees, Balázs Orbán, responded: the university is not the scene of identity politics and gender propaganda.
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Later, Die Presse also wrote a terribly one-sided summary, with which it tried to scold the Austrians, because according to the author, Viktor Orbán's "Trojan horse" must be expelled from Vienna. The paper also drew attention to the fact that MCC, as a think tank, is gaining more and more influence in the region with clever investments, as well as in the heart of Europe, in Brussels, and its ultra-conservative worldview is also influencing conservatives in Austria.
Newspapers supported by "civil organizations" and promoted with the help of left-wing politicians attack the MCC in Hungary as well: Direkt36, for example, wrote about the "leaked luxury expenses" of the talent agency, when it deduced from publicly available data that the MCC spends a lot on inviting serious international speakers, and takes the students on many trips abroad that provide unparalleled professional development.
Even the journalist himself later said in ATV that the institution's events are above average, and that it is not a luxury that it spends a lot on free training for students.
By the way, Direkt36 recently tried another disparaging article, in which it expressed doubts about the professional knowledge and activities of the MCC speakers - even though they include the president of NMHH, Béla Balázs award-winning screenwriter, former ambassador, university professor awarded with the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, ministerial commissioner and he is also an internationally recognized journalist. As Origo wrote: Direkt36 is financed in several ways from abroad, one of its main supporters is György Soros, but it also receives substantial sums while its staff were trained overseas.
Of course, the coordinated attack is not accidental, and it is not only directed against Hungarian talents: more and more people in Western Europe are admitting that the MCC successfully presents conservative values, and Hungary's strength in the right-wing community is constantly growing, so they are trying to make it impossible on this propagation of sounds.
The American NGO Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) recently expressed its concern that the influence of organizations linked to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, such as the MCC, is increasing.
The most striking example is the story in Brussels, when they tried to use anti-law and anti-democratic means to prevent the NatCon conference organized with the professional cooperation of the MCC, at which Viktor Orbán also gave a speech.
In addition, it is also spectacular how Péter Magyar, as a left-wing politician, criticizes the operation of the talent agency, which is reported with great pleasure by the news sites supported by the Soros network.
Cover image: György Soros' network targeted the MCC
Source: MTI/European Parliament/Philippe Buissin
