The use of the term Rule of Law is being promoted by law professors from the Central European University, a university funded and founded by financier George Soros and his Open Society Foundations. In April, 2016, well before the coronavirus budget crisis, two law professors connected with Soros’ Central European University, wrote a paper titled, “An EU mechanism on Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights.” There the authors, Dimitry Kochenov, and Petra Bard, of Soros’ Central European University, wrote that Poland and Hungary were guilty of the bizarre charge of “Rule of Law backsliding,” an Orwellian formulation to say the least. This was in reference to their resisting demands from the EU Commission that they take a mandated number of new refugees after the literal invasion of more than one million refugees from Syria, Libya and even Afghanistan in 2015. At the time, George Soros was openly lobbying that the EU countries accept a minimum of one million refugees yearly. The Orban government even submitted the issue to a popular referendum which he overwhelmingly won, hardly a sign of an authoritarian regime. Germany prohibits any popular referendums.