• Central European University forced out of Budapest
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CEU Forced Out of Budapest
Disaster. Get the EU sanctions going
outrageous. the very same people who were crowing about bill C17 in Canada and '''the left destroying free speech''' are now staring down a beast of their making and staying completely silent about it. not surprised in the slightest.
If the sanctions require all EU states to vote in unison I can see a potential road-block, Poland. When Poland was to be sanctioned because of their judge purge etc., Hungary vetoed.
Quite sad that it has finally come to this. After this years elections, and the end of the anti-Soros campaign, it seemed that CEU and the govt finally settled. A law was issued which basically required foreign universities to have campuses and students abroad (which I think is a fairly reasonable requirement, the aim was to distinguish fake universities from real ones), and CEU complied with this fully (they got a campus at Bard College, New York). But then the govt backtracked from all this, saying they won't sign the agreement with CEU, which effectively forced them to leave. Also to clear things up: CEU programs which give Hungarian accredited degrees will remain here. The ones that are moving are the ones that give US accredited degrees (the bulk of the programs). Birds are chirping there has been an agreement made not long ago between the Europeans People Party faction of the EP and Orbán that both of them will largely avoid attacking each other until the next European Parliament elections in 2019. Orbán has leverage, considering he is very popular here, which means he can get ~12-14 seats easy during the election, and EPP needs those seats to safely remain in majority. If the EPP won't even expel them, there is zero chance of anything along the lines of sanctions. Not to mention the usual concerns regarding sanctions that usually get voiced in threads like this.
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