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Hungary Targets Soros-Founded University in New Law

4-4-2017 < Red Ice Creations 97 138 words
 
Hungary Targets Soros-Founded University in New Law A legal change in Hungary means that a university founded by George Soros to foster democratic thinking in this Central East European country will be shut down. Hungary’s parliament on Tuesday voted 123–38 in favor of the measure, approving it the same day legislators were first given an opportunity to debate it. Under the change, foreign universities can only exist under a bilateral agreement between Hungary and the institution’s “home country,” where they are required to have a campus. Many see the new law as targeting Central European University, the Budapest-based university that was founded by Soros in 1991 to train democratic thinkers as the country emerged from decades of communism. The accreditation of American institutions is in the hands of the states, not the federal government.…
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