Hungary: Parliament to Fast-Track Bill Targeting Soros University
BREITBART.com
3 Apr 2017
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s parliament decided on Monday to rush through a draft bill on higher education seen as targeting a university founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
Acting on a request by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen, also head of the Christian Democrats, the junior party in the government coalition, lawmakers approved his motion to debate and vote on the legislation on Tuesday.
The U.S. State Department and hundreds of academics and institutions in Hungary and abroad have criticized the law which could force the closure of Central European University.
Semjen said his request was justified by “government interests to pass the law early.”
Prime Minister Viktor Orban considers the Hungarian-born Soros an ideological foe whose “open society” ideal contrasts with Orban’s efforts to turn Hungary into an “illiberal state.”
On Sunday, some 10,000 people took part in a march in support of Central European University, founded in 1991 and currently counting some 1,400 students from 108 countries.
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