While money flows generously into the CEU, there is a notable obstruction of EU funds by Brussels, which appears to be dancing to Soros's tune.

The authlib.eu website, funded by the EU through taxpayers’ money, contains publications with such grossly biased and one-sided titles as „Poland’s return to democracy – challenges facing the new government”, or „How the integrity of the elections in Poland is being undermined”.

The above mentioned site is part of the project dubbed „Neo-Authoritarianism in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response (AUTHLIB)”, and it is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. The project will run from 2022 to 2025 with a budget of more than €2.5 million from Brussels.

At the heart of the AUTHLIB project is the George George Soros University. CEU’s Budapest campus will contribute €500,000, while CEU GmbH will privide nearly €250,000. The other organisations and universities involved in the project are the Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politiques (€335,725), Univerzita Karlova (€261,878), Scuola Normale Superiore (€194,850), SWPS University (€429,252), The Transatlantic Foundation (€240,655), Universitat Wien (€290,716), and Oxford University and Charles University (the latter two will not receive EU funding), according to the Polish Wpolityce newspaper.

The project, funded by Brussels, has been entrusted to reliable leftist-liberal minions. According to the website, the main protagonist is Zsolt Enyedi, who served as deputy rector of Soros’s university from 2016-2020. The CEU project team also includes Michael Ignatieff, who was president of George Soros’s CEU from 2016 to 2021 and previously served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and opposition MP in the Canadian Parliament from 2008 to 2011. According to the project’s website, Soros’s university will delegate 19 members to the research team.

The AUTHLIB project is supported by a three-member advisory board, including the University of Gothenburg. This university has received several grants from the Soros foundation.

But the board also includes Marlene Wind, professor at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Center for European Policy Studies (an organisation supported by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations), and co-founder of iCourtst. In 2020, Ms Wind served as advisor to Ursula von der Leyen, and in 2021 she was appointed as Special Advisor on Democracy to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. In the same year, she participated in the Budapest Forum, organised by the Soros University and the Budapest Municipality and chaired by Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony.

In 2021, the Hungarian opposition portal 24.hu interviewed Ms Wind, in which she explained, among other things, that Brussels should withdraw EU funds:

„These measures should be stopped and through this we should put pressure on these countries. I don’t think that Article 7 will work, and neither will dialogue. We have had dialogue for long enough. Nothing has happened”.

So Marlene Wind, an individual funded by Brussels, has proposed to stop sending EU money and to keep up the pressure on Hungary. However, this is not the only surprising element in the AUTHLIB project. According to a newsletter issued last December regarding the 2024 projects,

„we are developing a package of measures that will allow liberal decision-makers to confront illiberal decision-makers”.

It is challenging to interpret this statement as anything other than Brussels aiding the Soros network through electoral interference. Similar incidents have occurred in the past, such as the allocation of „media dollars” and the funding of political activist groups in Hungary, Wpolityce writes.