Central European University, founded to ease the transition to democracy after the Soviet Union’s fall, has been a target of Viktor Orban, Hungary’s far-right leader.

The Central European University has been a bastion of democracy for three decades, but in recent years it was best known as a punching bag for the increasingly illiberal regime of Hungarian prime ...

hen in the spring of 2017 Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, made it illegal for the Central European University to offer U.S.-accredited degrees at its Budapest campus, everyone there ...

Michael Ignatieff was Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest and Vienna between 2016 and 2021.

Hungary and Poland form the key axis in this network, Zsuzsanna Szelenyi, a former MP for Orban's Fidesz party and now director at the Central European University's Democracy Institute, told DW.

A research university with small classes and a student body of more than 100 nationalities. The undergraduate tuition rate, which, at about $9,000 a year, is a fraction of private education’s ...

George Soros, the Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist, has announced that he will provide $250-million to endow Central European University, a Budapest-based gradate institution he created ...

Students and teachers of the Central European University and their sympathizers were blocked by riot police officers during a protest in downtown Budapest on April 9, 2017. The university was ...

Julia Verkholantsev, University of Pennsylvania, Series Editor Antoaneta Granberg, University of Gothenburg Paul W. Knoll, University of Southern California Petra Mutlová, Masaryk University, Brno ...