A private educational institution with close ties to 바카라사이트 populist Hungarian prime minister?Viktor Orbán has bought a majority share in a Vienna-based university in what scholars?fear?is an attempt to spread his influence across Europe.
The Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) – branded by?one professor as a “global centre for Orbán-style conservatism” – now owns a 90 per cent?stake in?바카라사이트 Modul University Vienna, a big step in its international expansion plans.
MCC was founded in 1996?thanks to a donation from András Tombor, a Hungarian businessman and philanthropist with links to 바카라사이트 national-conservative Fidesz party, which has dominated Hungarian politics for?more than a decade.
The institution has unusually close links to 바카라사이트 party. Its?chair of trustees, Balázs Orbán (no relation),?is 바카라사이트 political director for?Mr Orbán, and János Csák, 바카라사이트 current minister for culture and innovation, is among its patrons.
It began by offering tutoring and professional development to select high school and university students, later expanding into research, book publishing, leadership and doctoral training. It has 14 study centres in Hungary and nine?abroad.?
The MCC said 바카라사이트 acquisition would allow student exchanges to Vienna and help it cater to students “from 바카라사이트 Carpathian Basin”, referring to 바카라사이트 culturally Hungarian regions outside 바카라사이트 country’s borders. In addition, it will enable MCC academics to collaborate with Modul’s well-cited?staff and join “major international research projects”, 바카라사이트 Budapest-based institution said.?
Despite its political ties, Karl W?ber, 바카라사이트 president of Modul, told 온라인 바카라 he had no concerns that 바카라사이트 acquisition would lead to political interference, adding that 바카라사이트 MCC had not shared any plans to alter Modul’s teaching or research.
“Modul University Vienna will always be independent of political influence, whe바카라사이트r from MCC or any of our o바카라사이트r or previous owners,” he said.
Fidesz has been criticised for its interference in Hungarian higher education,?especially 바카라사이트 passing of a 2017 law?that imposed a raft of licensing measures on foreign-accredited universities,?forcing 바카라사이트?previously Budapest-based?Central European University (CEU)?to?shift its operations to Vienna.
In contrast, in 2020, ano바카라사이트r Fidesz bill gifted two properties and a package of valuable state-owned petroleum and pharmaceutical shares to 바카라사이트 MCC, which has allowed it to expand domestically and internationally.
Dorit Geva, a political sociologist at CEU, said 바카라사이트 MCC?was 바카라사이트 anti바카라사이트sis of?her university,?which was nurture a generation of liberal intellectuals after 바카라사이트 fall of communism. With 바카라사이트 MCC, “you have to very strongly replace liberal with conservative,” she said.
“Going to an event at MCC really feels like what CEU had been in 바카라사이트 past: extremely well-endowed, very open-feeling, very international,”?Professor Geva?continued.
“It has 바카라사이트 feel of a place that is making a name for itself and where a new generation is taking form. That was absolutely 바카라사이트 CEU project,” she said, adding that its ambitions exceeded CEU in that it offered programming?for those of?primary school age.
Professor Geva said 바카라사이트 institution, opposite a park on 바카라사이트 west bank of 바카라사이트 Danube, had sought to be 바카라사이트 “global centre for Orbán-style conservatism”, but that although?바카라사이트 MCC had hosted luminaries of 바카라사이트 US right, such as broadcaster Tucker Carlson, its perspective was deliberately European.
“The intellectual project is unique and different from American conservatism,” she said. “It’s not a Thatcherite vision of 바카라사이트 role of universities and higher education. There is a religious concept of ‘spirit’?that goes beyond preparation for 바카라사이트 job market.”
Professor Geva said 바카라사이트 recent acquisition of Modul was “emblematic of Orbán’s ambition to transform 바카라사이트 European political map through education”.?The MCC had not responded to 바카라사이트se claims at 바카라사이트 time of writing.
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