October 26, 2015
CEU Professor Anton Pelinka is featured in this International Business Times article about the recent Polish elections.
http://www.ibtimes.com/poland-election-results-2015-will-euroskeptic-law-justice-come-power-after-years-2152749
October 22, 2015
The large turnout at the public panel on "Philosophy, the refugee crisis, and how to help in Hungary," hosted by CEU’s Department of Philosophy on September 22, indicated a keen interest across CEU in helping refugees and migrants, as well as in philosophical analysis of political debates about migration policy.
October 1, 2015
http://index.hu/belfold/2015/10/01/uzsorasok_szegenyseg_melyszegenyseg_nyomor_abcug/ - Hungarian news portal figyelo.hu reports about how usurers exploit people living in deep poverty in Hungary. The article quotes Balint Misetic, PhD student at CEU’s Department of Political Science, who says that past governments should have supported housing instead of house loans, and draws attention to the Hungarian government’s shift towards the criminalization of poverty.
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