Soros-Founded School, ‘Forced Out’ of Budapest, Moves to Vienna
- U.S.-accredited programs to relocate to Austria next year
- CEU cites insufficient pressure from abroad on Orban’s cabinet
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Central European University, founded by Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, confirmed that it’s relocating its American-accredited degree programs to Vienna after getting insufficient support from Europe and the U.S. in a legal dispute with Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government.
“CEU has been forced out,” school President Michael Ignatieff said Monday. “This is unprecedented. A U.S. institution has been driven out of a country that is a NATO ally. A European institution has been ousted from a member state of the EU."