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Part of the Central European University's former campus in Budapest (Photo: CEU Hungary)

Orban move evicting Budapest university 'unlawful'

The EU's highest court on Tuesday (6 October) ruled that changes by Hungary to its higher education law which forced a university founded by Hungarian-born US billionaire George Soros to quit the country, was in breach of EU law.

The 2017 legislation put the Budapest-based Central European University (CEU), established in 1991 by Soros, under pressure in what became one of prime minister Viktor Orban's emblematic battles with the EU.

At the time, the university said

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Part of the Central European University's former campus in Budapest (Photo: CEU Hungary)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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