Juncker and Soros hold Brussels meeting to plot legal action against Hungarian government
JEAN-CLAUDE Juncker will hold a behind closed doors meeting with George Soros at which the pair will discuss legal action against the Hungarian government, EU officials announced today.
By NICK GUTTERIDGE, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENTExpress.co.uk
Fri, Apr 21, 2017
The EU Commission chief will host the billionaire financier in Brussels as part of eurocrats’ preparations to take Budapest to court over a number of alleged breaches of EU law.
Brussels has been enraged by the actions of firebrand prime minister Viktor Orban, who has passed a new law in an attempt to close a university backed by Mr Soros.
The Hungarian PM has cast the institution as an ‘enemy within’ and says it is being used by the billionaire to push a liberal pro-EU agenda against his right-wing government.
But EU officials have insisted his new legal crackdown, which would require foreign-accredited universities to have a campus in their home country, is illegal under Brussels rules.
The Central European University, set up by Mr Soros in 1991, is technically registered in America but operates exclusively in Eastern Europe, meaning it would fall foul of the new change.
Earlier this month the EU’s College of Commissioners met to discuss the situation in Hungary and agreed to take forward a number of legal proceedings against Budapest.
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