Orban’s Science Crackdown Brings Hungarian Academics to Streets
- Cabinet plans to cut funding to network of research centers
- Move follows effective expulsion of a university from Budapest
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Hungarians formed a human chain around the Academy of Sciences building in Budapest, saying the 200-year-old nerve center of research in the country is poised to fall prey to the crackdown against independent voices.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a standard-bearer of Europe’s resurgent nationalist movement, has stepped up efforts to flush out opposition to his illiberal vision following his third consecutive election win last year.