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George Soros's Open Society Foundation, best known for funding civil rights activists across Eastern Europe and the developing world, are now funding projects in northern England.
The society is increasingly turning their attention to affluent western Europe in response to the rise of the far right.
Much of the enlarged focus - which includes funding organisations devoted to fostering community spirit in poorest parts of England that voted strongly for Brexit - reflects a concern that Western Europe is also succumbing to the charms of nationalist strongman leaders like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Officials at the hedge fund magnate and philanthropist's charity, which disburses around a billion dollars a year, said the nationalist right's recent electoral successes were triggering the same contraction in the space for independent activism that had earlier been seen in Eastern Europe.
In southern France, the foundation has stepped in to replace funding to local migrant rights and anti-discrimination groups whose financing was frozen when Marine Le Pen's then-National Front, since renamed National Rally, took power in a number of municipalities.
With Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany set to make gains in regional elections across the country's east in the autumn, the foundation is preparing to take similar steps, said Selmin Caliskan, a director in its new Berlin office.
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