The conservative think-tank Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) will fall apart if incoming Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar makes good on his threats, interim rector Carsten Q. Schneider of the Central European University (CEU) told Euractiv.
Schneider talks to Euractiv from his office in Vienna. The CEU was founded and funded in Budapest by long-time Orbán-opponent, George Soros – a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist, born in Budapest.
In 2017, it moved the bulk of its teaching operations to Vienna after the Orbán-government implemented laws the CEU insisted were tailored to render it impossible for it to stay. Still, after centre-right firebrand Magyar’s election win, the university is planning to stay in the Austrian capital.
Now another institution might be under pressure thanks to the change of government in Budapest.
On Monday – one day after his election win – Magyar said that his government will do away with the state’s ties both to the MCC…
