Budapest’s ongoing support for liberal values comes despite the Hungarian government’s best efforts to erode it. One thing that has always fascinated me about Budapest...
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For more than three decades, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations network has provided billions of euros of crucial funding to civil society organisations across...
Budapest’s residents have been protesting against the Hungarian government’s plans to build a Chinese-funded university in the city. Is Hungary’s prime...
Emerging Europe’s Jo Harper has lived in Poland for more than 20 years. His latest book, Our Man in Warszawa, challenges some accepted thinking in the West about...
Europe’s top court has ruled that a Hungarian law that forced the Central European University (CEU) out of the country was not in line with EU law. The European...
Students at Budapest’s University for Theatre and Film (SZFE) have been occupying their campus for more than a week in protest at what they claim is a takeover of the...
After the fall of communism Hungary was enthusiastic to join the European integration project in order to ensure that it did not fall back into the Russian sphere of...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist George Soros has publicly reiterated his support for Budapest’s Central European University (CEU), stating that...
Lobbyists of the Hungarian government in the US House of Representatives are using “misleading” reports to get a resolution supporting Hungarian nationalist prime...
The Central European University in Budapest (CEU) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have signed an agreement to launch joint academic programmes. The two...
There is fresh hope that the Central European University (CEU) may stay in Budapest, after the minister president of Bavaria, Markus Söder, started a dialogue with...
The eagerly-anticipated visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Central Europe last week came amidst much hope for renewed US engagement in the region. There had...