CEU

“A Dark Day for Hungary”

By Melissa Byrnes

In General

On December 3, 2018

It has been twenty months since Viktor Orban's Fidesz government launched their legislative attack on Central European University. Today, CEU officially announced that it will move all US-accredited programs to a new campus in Vienna. Over the course of 20 months, CEU has taken all...

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Marine Le Pen: Making France Revisionist Again

By Melissa Byrnes

On April 11, 2017

It’s a good week for anti-Semitism in Europe. Monday morning, the Hungarian President signed a law that essentially bans Central European University from operating (as part of the ruling party’s.

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The War on Knowledge

By Melissa Byrnes

On March 29, 2017

The Hungarian government is trying to close down Central European University (CEU), an American-accredited university in Budapest founded by George Soros in 1991 to support intellectual freedom and free speech..

Cereal Mae'r byd yn cynnwys llawer o frenhinoedd. Dw i’n brenin y grawn.
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