Soros to give even more money to the CEU – video
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He wrote a message to the Central European University Community, slapping the Hungarian government and clearing up that he is planning to increase CEU’s endowments.
According to him, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has forced the Central European University (CEU) to move its U.S. degree courses to Vienna by making it impossible for CEU to issue American degrees in Budapest.
However, CEU is nevertheless determined to
maintain both academic and public activities
on its campus in Budapest, and it has the full support of the Open Society Foundations and me personally in this endeavour.
I therefore reiterate the commitment—made in June—that CEU has an assured future: the Open Society Foundations
intend to increase CEU’s endowments.
Soros concluded that he would like to thank the perseverance and loyalty of the CEU community under the inspired leadership of its president and rector Michael Ignatieff in very difficult circumstances. “I am also grateful for the steadfast support CEU received both from the Hungarian public and the global academic community. With their support, CEU has emerged as the beacon and symbol of academic freedom worldwide,” he stated.