Soros's School Is Set for Exodus From Budapest After Crackdown
- CEU set Dec. 1 as a deadline to end its legal limbo in Hungary
- Hungarian premier has attacked groups associated with Soros
The entrance to the Central European University (CEU) stands in Budapest.
Photographer: Atila Kissendeck/AFP via Getty Images
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The Budapest-based university founded by billionaire George Soros is poised to move most of its programs to Vienna after a deadline it set for Hungary to reconsider its effective expulsion expired Saturday.
The ouster of Central European University, the first such instance in the history of the European Union, marks another milestone in the retreat of liberal democracy that’s now threatening the democratic foundations of the world’s largest trading bloc.