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Doctoral Students of ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences stand in solidarity with CEU

April 26, 2017

Doctoral Students of ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences stand in solidarity with Central European University

Our faculty member's article in De Standaard

April 24, 2017

Our faculty member, Floris Bernard has published an opinion on CEU's current situation in the Flemish daily newspaper of Belgium, De Standaard. The article focuses on Floris' experience with the students from CEU instead of dwelling on the political implications only.

See the attachment for the pdf version of the article (in Dutch).

Statement by Cambridge University faculty members

April 20, 2017

We, faculty members and researchers of the University of Cambridge with Hungarian roots watch the Hungarian government's offensive against the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest with sorrow and consternation. Many eminent colleagues both in Hungary and around the world have pointed out recently that CEU is one of the very few world class institutions of learning and research in the country. As such, it deserves to be supported, not attacked. In fact it would even suffice to simply allow its academics to do their job.

What happens when we do not defend academic freedom

April 19, 2017

Berthold Rittberger (University of Munich) and Jeremy Richardson (Nuffield College, University of Oxford; University of Canterbury, NZ)  published a short but really insightful paper in the Journal of European Public Policy, in support of CEU.

Read the full article in the attachment. It's worth reading...