Tag: Hungary

“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 steps to comply with Hungarian legislation, launching educational activities in […]

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Fascists Love Misogyny

By Erik Loomis

On August 12, 2018

The Trump of central Europe, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, acts like you would expect, like all the fascists do, when it comes to women. The number of students impacted by the ban is small–only 11 a

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No Victory in Europe

By Melissa Byrnes

On June 7, 2018

Trump’s Europe policy is a mess. First, there’s this. And I thought our Ambassador’s enthusiasm for empowering the German right-wing had set a new low in historical understandingR

The War on Knowledge

By Melissa Byrnes

In General

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. CEU’s response to the Hungarian Parliament asserts that the proposed acts are intentionally discriminatory: After careful legal study, CEU has concluded that these amendments would […]