University Founded by George Soros Gets Booted Out of the Country

A university located in Hungary and founded by leftist and open borders advocate George Soros was just given the boot, the Los Angeles Times is reporting:

Central European University said Monday it will move its U.S.-accredited degree programs from the Hungarian capital of Budapest to Vienna in September, as Hungary’s government is refusing to sign an agreement allowing it to stay.

University President and Rector Michael Ignatieff said Monday that the school “has been forced out” of Hungary, calling it an “unprecedented” act against an American university by a NATO ally and against a European university by a member of the European Union.

Not sure I would call a university founded by George Soros an “American university” but OK.

The EU’s executive commission last year referred Hungary to court in the university case, saying that amendments Hungary made to its higher-education law — some of which clearly targeted the school — were counter to academic freedom and other EU rights.

The law has also been challenged at Hungary’s Constitutional Court. …

The university’s ouster is part of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ideological battle against Hungarian American philanthropist and school founder George Soros and his “open society” model.

It is also part of a wider crackdown on academic freedom, including tighter budgetary and research controls over Hungarian universities and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Of course, here’s the real reason the leftist oriented LA Times is so upset by this:

In October, for example, Hungary eliminated gender study programs at public universities.

That is a huge sin.

Eliminating gender study programs is practically criminal, after all who needs to study finance, engineering, management or other worthless types of programs?

Bottom line is leaders that are not blinded by political correctness understand the threat that people like George Soros and open borders pose to their societies.

The Hungarian leader should be praised for his action, not condemned.

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