Orban Halts Plan for Chinese Campus to Contain Campaign Fallout

  • Hungarian leader backs referendum after 2022 general election
  • Thousands protested against a new Fudan campus in Budapest
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Hungary’s opposition claimed a victory over Prime Minister Viktor Orban ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections after he appeared to backtrack on an unpopular plan to build a Chinese university campus in Budapest.

The government is offering to hold a referendum in 2023 on the Fudan University project, which the government had until recently signaled was a done deal. Thousands rallied in the capital on Saturday to voice their opposition, in the first major protest since the end of pandemic restrictions.