The legislative threat to CEU's continued existence in Hungary has attracted widespread condemnation and concern, including from the US government.
Hungary said on Wednesday there was a way for a university founded by US financier George Soros to continue operations, following protests after opponents said a new law threatened its future.
"With its ample funding, worldwide prestige and support for liberal scholarship, CEU has been a significant obstacle to Orban's ideological end-game", said Eurasia Group, a political consultancy, in a recent note.
The EC also warned Hungary that the country risks being sued in court over changes to higher education law, policies with respect to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and asylum rules, wire service Reuters reported.
"I agree with Tibor on the importance of the Central European University being able to operate in Budapest undisturbed", Timmermans said at the European Parliament.
People sit during a protest against a new law that would undermine Central European University in Budapest. "The solution evoked by state secretary Palkovics in the press does not appear to be legally and operationally coherent and certain", the university said in response.
The European Union may take action against Hungary for legislation that refuses to take in asylum seekers and threatens to close a university in Bucharest.
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The attorney was unable to say precisely how Dao was injured. "There are no excuses", Alderman Michael Zalewski said. Dao's lawyer, Thomas Demetrio, said United added insult to injury by also losing his client's luggage.
"Exchanges in the press are no substitute for sustained direct contact on a confidential basis".
The new rules would require, among other things, the CEU to open a campus in the state of NY as well as reach an inter-governmental agreement with the U.S. Federal government, even though higher education is a state subject in the U.S., Ms. Innes said.
The United States called on Hungary to suspend implementation of the law, which on Sunday drew some of the biggest demonstrations against Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government by opponents who consider it part of a wider crackdown on dissent.
The US state department called on Budapest this week to suspend the changes to education law, and the European Union expressed serious concern over the reform as well as proposed changes to Hungary's legislation on NGOs and the country's draconian asylum policy.
"Look at the law: they are still out to get CEU, they are still out to get Soros, they don't care if they destroy the country in the process", said Geza Lukacs, 22, an engineering student from the northern town of Vac.
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"Taken cumulatively, the overall situation in Hungary is a cause of concern", First Vice President Frans Timmermans told a news conference after the commissioners discussed Hungary at their weekly meeting.
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