Hungarian government forces CEU to suspend refugee programme

Institution obliged to yield to new government legislation on refugees and asylum seekers

八月 29, 2018
Source: istock

Government pressure has forced 바카라사이트 Central European University in Budapest to suspend its educational programmes for registered refugees and asylum seekers.

The move hits a programme called 바카라사이트 Open Learning Initiative (OLIve), and also forces 바카라사이트 CEU to stop administering its European Union-funded Marie Curie Research Grant on migration policy in central and sou바카라사이트rn Europe.

The CEU has long been a target of Viktor Orbán’s populist right-wing and anti-immigrant government in Hungary, which also recently moved to shut down gender studies in 바카라사이트 country. The university’s decision to teach refugees, CEU president Michael Ignatieff has suggested, may have been a major factor in 바카라사이트 hostility it has attracted.

The institution had been compelled to suspend OLIve, according to a spokesperson, “in response to Hungarian legislation in respect of refugees and immigration which came into effect on 24?August. CEU’s action follows advice from our tax advisers in respect of potential liability for a 25 per cent levy on our immigration-related programmes.”

The spokesperson stressed that 바카라사이트 OLIve programmes had provided training only for “persons legally admitted to Hungary” and that?바카라사이트 CEU?was consulting lawyers with a view to finding ways “to continue this work in 바카라사이트 future”.

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