Soros Foundations leave the EU because its ‘grants are taken for granted’
Saturday, August 26th, 2023A Hungarian-Canadian writer who is familiar with George Soros looks back on his life and efforts to promote the idea of an open society. READ MORE
European Court rules against Hungary over CEU
Thursday, October 8th, 2020In a first analysis of the verdict, a legal expert thinks the European Court of Justice departed from its own traditions when ruling that the 2017 amendment to the Higher Education Act violated European law. READ MORE
CEU’s last graduation ceremony in Budapest
Monday, July 1st, 2019As the Central European University bids farewell to Hungary, right-wing commentators liken ideas expressed by CEU representatives to colonialist and even Nazi and Communist thinking. They consider CEU’s departure as ‘good riddance’. A Marxist philosopher charges the government with the imposition of ideological absolutism. READ MORE
Weber and Orbán thought to have saved Fidesz’s EPP membership
Thursday, March 14th, 2019Although after three hours of talks with PM Victor Orbán in Budapest, EPP top candidate Manfred Weber said they could not agree on all issues, a liberal reporter believes, that he offered a face-saving solution to the last contentious issue. READ MORE
Case CEU – how important is it?
Monday, December 10th, 2018Left wing commentators consider the departure of the US-accredited degree modules of the Central European University a major defeat for democracy. A conservative analyst remarks that the West does not seem too concerned. READ MORE
CEU moves 4 courses out of 5 to Vienna
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018After the President of the Central European University announced that 49 of the CEU’s 59 courses will be transferred to Vienna, the debate continues in the press on whether the government’s refusal to let them stay serves or harms Hungary’s interests. READ MORE
CEU moves US degrees to Vienna
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018A leftist commentator accuses the government of trying to annihilate those intellectuals whose opinions differ from its own. A pro-government columnist, on the other hand believes that the kind of open society the Central University advocates has no place in Hungary. READ MORE
Soros meets Chancellor Kurz in Vienna
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018Pro-government authors find it strange for Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to personally meet Hungarian-American financier George Soros and talk to him about Europe’s future, over and above the gradual transfer of most of the courses of Central European University from Budapest to Vienna. READ MORE
New and old arguments about the Central European University
Monday, November 5th, 2018A pro-government commentator accuses the CEU of not meeting the Hungarian regulations that would allow it to issue US accredited degrees in Budapest. Left-wing and liberal columnists, on the other hand, think that the government is persecuting the university founded by George Soros for political reasons. READ MORE
Further comments on the departure of the Central European University
Monday, October 29th, 2018Left-wing commentators see a litmus test in the government’s handing of the CEU affair; one explains why the Prime Minister feels he cannot compromise on that matter, while pro-government outlets ridicule the protests over the planned transfer of most CEU courses to Vienna. READ MORE