April 7, 2017
With its stance on migration, Central Europe is back in the limelight, said Jacques Rupnik, professor and director of research of the Centre de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, at CEU on March 30 as part of the Rethinking Open Society series. Europe should not compromise on its principles, but has to make them adaptable in Central Europe as well, Rupnik said.
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 6, 2017
President Thomas F. Rosenbaum and Provost Edward M. Stolper of the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech) offered their support of CEU in a letter written to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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 4, 2017
Budapest, April 4, 2017 – Central European University (CEU) condemns the Hungarian Parliament’s passage of amendments to the Hungarian national law on higher education today. The new law puts at risk the academic freedom not only of CEU but of other Hungarian research and academic institutions.
April 4, 2017
Budapest, 2017. április 4. – A Közép-európai Egyetem (CEU) elítéli a nemzeti felsőoktatásról szóló törvény módosításának az Országgyűlés által a mai napon történt elfogadását. Az új törvény nem csak a CEU, de más magyar felsőoktatási- és kutatóintézmények tanszabadságát is veszélyezteti.
April 4, 2017
Dr. Lutz Krebs, initiator of the "Save Central European University" petition on change.org last, sent a letter to Laszlo Kover, the Speaker of the National Assembly, on April 3 with the signatures of 30,524 people from 134 countries. CEU is grateful for the immense support.
April 4, 2017
Duke University Provost and Jo Rae Wright University Professor Sally Kornbluth expressed Duke's support for CEU in a letter to CEU President and Rector Michael Ignatieff April 3, 2017.
Duke has several CEU alumni on its faculty, six CEU graduates currently studying in its graduate programs, and at least three academic cooperation programs are currently active between the two universities, she said.
April 3, 2017
"A nemzetközileg elismert tudás érték Erdélyben" címmel írt 99 erdélyi értelmiségi levelet Balog Zoltánnak, az emberi erőforrások miniszterének, melyben állást foglalnak a Közép-európai Egyetem mellett.




