(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, 06 OTT - The European Union's top
court ruled on Tuesday that a law on foreign-funded universities
which Hungary used to close a renowned college founded by George
Soros was illegal. "The conditions introduced by Hungary to
enable foreign higher education institutions to carry out their
activities in its territory are incompatible with EU law," the
European Court of Justice said. Soros, the Hungarian-born US
investor and philanthropist set up the Central European
University (CEU) in his native Budapest in 1991, but it was
forced to largely move to Vienna in 2019 after falling foul of
the new law. The National Higher education law was written to
regulate all international higher eduction institutions, but was
widely seen as an attack on the CEU by Prime Minister Viktor
Orban. (ANSA-AFP).
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