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Viktor Orban expelled Central European University from Hungary. Now, Donald Trump is re-creating his playbook.
The European Union and Central Asia must continue moving engagement to the next level, from discussions and statements to actions across a broader spectrum.
Bari Weiss's University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary's speech-suppressing regime ...
Central European University (CEU) is an English-language university based in Vienna founded in 1991 by a group of visionary intellectuals – most of them prominent members of the anti-totalitarian ...
Central European University, founded to ease the transition to democracy after the Soviet Union’s fall, has been a target of Viktor Orban, Hungary’s far-right leader.
Russian citizens studying and working at Central European University say the Russian government’s blacklisting of the liberal-arts institution puts them in a precarious position, exposing them ...
Russian has designated the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, founded by billionaire financier and civil society activist George Soros, as an "undesirable organisation", according to a ...
hen in the spring of 2017 Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, made it illegal for the Central European University to offer U.S.-accredited degrees at its Budapest campus, everyone there ...
Critics counter that Orban himself forced one of the world's best universities, the Central European University (CEU), to leave Hungary in 2018.
Two years ago, Hungary’s famous Central European University, which is backed by Hungarian-born, U.S.-based financier George Soros, was effectively forced out of the country through changes to ...
Despite that ruling, the Central European University remains based in Vienna. All this leaves Hungary at a crucial junction as it gears up for next year's elections, Stronski says.