Hungary has no intention of mediating with the EU and with the financier George Soros. According to a government spokesperson, Budapest will not relax rules for international universities despite pressure from the EU and offers from Germany to mediate over the university founded by Soros.
“There is no change in our core vision”, he said to Reuters the government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs. “We will not change the laws and regulations governing higher education in Hungary. We still operate on this basis.".
The Central European University, established by George Soros, will move part of its courses to Austria starting from September due to the restrictions introduced by the Hungarian government.
The dispute between Viktor Orban and Soros is one of the main issues that led to the suspension of Fidesz by the European People's Party before the May elections.
As he says IlGiornale.it, at the end of December George Soros and his university were forced to abandon Budapest after the regulations passed by the Hungarian government against the activities of the much criticized university. From September 2019 Cue will open its doors in Vienna, in Austria. And who knows how it will be received.
Protests from representatives of Soros University immediately mounted. “The CEU has been expelled. An American institution was kicked out of a country that is a NATO ally. A European institution has been ousted from an EU member country”, Michael Ignatieff shouted yesterday, president of the CEU, in an official press release published on the university website.
source – https://oltrelalinea.news/2019/04/13/ungheria-linea-dura-nessuna-concessione-a-soros/