Hungary has blamed a conspiracy for coming bottom in an EU corruption rating as it seeks to unfreeze European funding.
"Transparency International [TI] is a member of the Soros Network," Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács tweeted on Tuesday ( 31 January).
"This network finances the campaigns of the domestic and international Left and serves it with its slanderous reports," he added.
Hungary's far-right government has a long track-record of intimating conspiracie...
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