April 20, 2017
Budapest, April 20 – From the beginning of this episode, CEU has called on the Hungarian government to sit down and begin confidential negotiations for a mutually acceptable solution to enable it to continue operations in Hungary. Instead, CEU has been subjected to a barrage of incoherent statements and false allegations. It is time for the government to stop playing these games, figure out its negotiating positions, and begin talks with the university.
April 12, 2017
Budapest, April 12, 2017 -- Central European University (CEU) welcomes the U.S. government’s expression of full support for CEU’s fight for academic freedom and its right to remain in Budapest, most recently in remarks by State Department spokesperson Mark C. Toner. Secondly, and just as significantly, the European Commission has announced its decision to swiftly complete a thorough legal assessment of Hungary’s Higher Education law and decide on further steps in the next infringement cycle. This is a remarkable step by the European Commission.
April 12, 2017
Legislation has been prepared by the Hungarian government that affects a fundamental democratic right, the right to free association. Freedom of association is no less important than academic freedom, and we stand in its defense. When tens of thousands of people demonstrated peacefully for CEU and for academic freedom last week, they also demonstrated for freedom in general.
April 10, 2017
Budapest, April 10, 2017 – Central European University (CEU) strongly disagrees with the decision by President Janos Ader to sign the amendments to Hungary’s national higher education legislation. Accordingly, CEU will immediately seek all available legal remedies.
The legislation was introduced without consultation with CEU or with necessary Hungarian authorities and thus violates elementary standards of due process observed in any democratic country.
The legislation is targeted at an American institution in a flagrantly discriminatory manner.
April 6, 2017
Budapest, April 6 -- Central European University (CEU) is determined to stay in Budapest, its home for more than two decades, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Leon Botstein said. Any reports about other plans are false. CEU also reiterates that it intends to resort to all legal remedies available in order to remain in Budapest, where it has operated lawfully for 25 years.
April 6, 2017
Budapest, April 6, 2017 – Central European University (CEU) President and Rector Michael Ignatieff met with the following U.S. officials and members of Congress as well as journalists in the past four days to garner support for CEU’s case.
April 5, 2017
Budapest, April 5, 2017 – The Ministry of Human Capacities statement of April 4 concerning Central European University (CEU) and Közép-európai Egyetem contains a number of inaccuracies and errors. The fact that our university is not referred to by its official name but, alluding to the founder, is referred to as “Soros University,” shows the statement is a piece of political propaganda.
April 5, 2017
Budapest, April 5, 2017 – Central European University (CEU) today sent a memorandum to President of Hungary Janos Ader outlining the unconstitutional nature of the amendments to Hungary’s Higher Education Law passed yesterday in Parliament. Hungary’s constitution is commonly known as the Basic Law.
April 5, 2017
Letter regarding Central European University sent to The Times by the Master and Governing Body of Pembroke College, Oxford
Note for media: Pembroke is the college that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended while at Oxford as a Soros Scholar 1989-1990.
5 April 2017
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