The EU announced Thursday that it was launching a second, separate legal action against Hungary for a law it adopted in June requiring any NGO receiving $26,000 or more in foreign funding to register with the government as a “foreign-supported organization” or risk closure. The law is widely regarded to be aimed directly at organizations, particularly of a pro-immigrant persuasion, funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros.

“Civil society is the very fabric of our democratic societies and therefore should not be unduly restricted in its work,” said European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans in a letter to the Hungarian government. “We have studied the new law on [non-governmental organizations, or NGOs] carefully, and have come to the conclusion that it does not comply with EU law.”

The formal threat is the first step in the EU’s process of sanctioning noncompliant member states.

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The EU also issued another ultimatum against Hungary on Thursday, giving the country one month to revise its law designed to rein in the political activities of the Soros-funded Central European University.

The law “runs counter to the right of academic freedom, the right to education, and the freedom to conduct a business,” the EU said in a “reasoned opinion” released on Thursday, the second step in the process of taking legal action against a EU member state.

“We expect a reaction from the Hungarian authorities within a month,” Timmermans said in a statement. “If the response is not satisfactory, the Commission can decide to go to the Court.”

In addition to the EU’s legal actions against Hungary regarding its NGO law and its law affecting Soros’ Central European University, the EU began to take legal steps against Hungary for the nation’s refusal to comply with the European bloc’s migrant resettlement schemes earlier in the summer. Soros is of among the largest private, individual financiers of pro-migrant efforts in Europe.

In addition to the three pending legal actions, the EU also pressured the Hungarian government into suspending an anti-Soros poster campaign. The EU maintained that the campaign — which saw the government install posters with an image of a Soros and the message “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh” was anti-Semitic.

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The Israeli Foreign Ministry weighed in on the incident, first seeming to condemn the poster but later making plain that government’s opposition to Soros.

“Israel deplores any expression of anti-Semitism in any country and stands with Jewish communities everywhere in confronting this hatred,” said the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Emmanuel Nahshon, in a prepared statement.

“In no way was the statement meant to delegitimize criticism of George Soros, who continuously undermines Israel’s democratically elected governments by funding organizations that defame the Jewish state and seek to deny it the right to defend itself,” Nahshon later clarified.