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Daily News Daily News · 13/02/2019
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Orbán cabinet plan to reorganise Academy of Sciences triggers opposition protest

Democratic Coalition demonstration Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary Jobbik science
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Budapest, 2019. február 12. A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (MTA) tervezett átalakítása ellen tüntetnek az Akadémiai Dolgozók Fóruma Élõlánc a tudományért címmel meghirdetett demonstrációjának résztvevõi az MTA székháza elõtt Budapesten 2019. február 12-én. MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd

Government plans to reorganise the structure and funding of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) have triggered protests from opposition parties on Tuesday.

The leftist Democratic Coalition (DK) said the government has made decisions that ignore the interests of the Academy and the staff of MTA institutes, DK deputy group leader Gergely Arató told a press conference. As a consequence of the planned measures, researchers and scientists are expected to leave Hungary by the thousands, he added.

The government is “angry with” MTA and Hungarian scientists obviously for political reasons, he said.

Group spokesman Zsolt Gréczy said that Hungarian scientists and their workshops could be destroyed by cuts in MTA funds. He said he would ask the head of parliament’s budget committee to revisit issues concerning the Hungarian Academy of Sciences budget.

Innovation and Technology Minister László Palkovics arbitrarily wants to overwrite the MTA budget figures, which could potentially be a violation of the law, he said.

The conservative Jobbik party told another press conference that the insecurity created by the government would cause severe and long-term damage to Hungarian scientific life.

“Fidesz’s anti-knowledge, anti-intellectual policies have reached a new level,” deputy group leader Koloman Brenner said.

Brenner said that “as a people’s party”, Jobbik stands for the freedom of sciences and education, stressing the need of a “sensible policy discussion on modernising the MTA and converging universities and scientific research.” Palkovics’s “Bolshevik-type exercise of power” has caused irreparable damage to 21st-century Hungarian science, he said.

Meanwhile, ethnic Hungarian leaders of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj (Kolozsvár), Romania, which boasts a long-standing tradition in Hungarian-language courses and has many Hungarian students, issued a statement together with the Romanian national institute for ethnic minority research, expressing concern over the planned changes.

Some hundred people staged a silent protest in front of the Hungarian Consulate-General in Cluj on Tuesday.


HUNGARIAN SCIENCE ACADEMY EMPLOYEES STAGE PROTEST AGAINST REORGANISATION


THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT TO SUPPRESS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SAYS ACADEMY STAFF FORUM

Source: MTI

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