[spectre] Hungarian government chasing CEU

[János Sugár]

Central European University (CEU) expresses its opposition to 
proposed amendments to Act CCIV of 2011 on National Higher Education, 
tabled in Hungarian Parliament today. After careful legal study, CEU 
has concluded that these amendments would make it impossible for the 
University to continue its operations as an institution of higher 
education in Budapest, CEU's home for 25 years. CEU is in full 
conformity with Hungarian law. The proposed legislation targets CEU 
directly and is therefore discriminatory and unacceptable. CEU calls 
on the government to scrap the legislation and enter into dialogue to 
find a solution that allows CEU to continue in Budapest as a free and 
independent international graduate university.
"Any legislative change that would force CEU to cease operation in 
Budapest would damage Hungarian academic life and negatively impact 
the government of Hungary's relations with its neighbors, its EU 
partners and with the United States," said CEU President and Rector 
Michael Ignatieff. "I call on the government to enter into 
negotiations with us to find a satisfactory way forward that allows 
CEU to continue in Budapest and to maintain the academic freedoms 
essential to its operation."
https://www.ceu.edu/article/2017-03-28/ceu-responds-proposed-amendments-hungarian-higher-education-law


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