Düstere Aussichten für die akademische Freiheit in Ungarn

Düstere Aussichten für die akademische Freiheit in Ungarn

Die von George Soros gegründete und aus Ungarn vertriebene Central European University (CEU) an ihrem neuen vorläufigen Standort in der Quellenstraße 51 in Favoriten, dem 10. Bezirk von Wien - nicht gerade einer feinen Adresse... Im Oktober soll hier der Unterrichtsbetrieb beginnen.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000106994938/die-erste-vertreibung-einer-universitaet-in-der-europaeischen-union
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_University
Viel ausführlicher ist die englische Version dieses Wikipedia-Artikels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_University
https://www.zeit.de/2019/19/central-european-university-ungarn-umzug-wien-wissenschaft-freiheit
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/02/hungary-renews-its-war-academic-freedom

"Mr. Orban has long viewed the school as a bastion of liberalism, presenting a threat to his vision of creating an “illiberal democracy,” and his desire to shut it down was only deepened by its association with Mr. Soros, a philanthropist who was born in Hungary.
Mr. Orban has spent years demonizing Mr. Soros, a Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary, accusing him of seeking to destroy European civilization by promoting illegal immigration, and often tapping into anti-Semitic tropes." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/world/europe/soros-hungary-central-european-university.html

"The university was a casualty of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s turn toward authoritarianism, his development of a quietly repressive system that I’ve termed “soft fascism.” CEU, a university dedicated to liberal principles and founded by Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, posed a threat to Orbán’s ideological project. So he put in place a set of characteristically sneaky regulations aimed at forcing out CEU without needing to formally ban them, eventually crushing the university’s ability to operate." https://www.vox.com/world/2018/12/4/18123754/hungary-ceu-orban-soros-authoritarianism