"Prime Minister Orban committed himself in the EPP council to follow and implement all the demands of the European Commission within the deadline set by the commission", said Siegfried Muresan, a spokesman for EPP President Joseph Daul.
"A letter of formal notice is a first step towards infringement procedure but there is a time for Hungarian authorities to react to the letter of formal notice and then following the reactions the Commission will decide on further steps", EU Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said Wednesday.
People light with their mobile phones as they protest against the bill that would undermine Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, April 9, 2017. The university is accredited in NY state but has no campus there.
Hungary can be taken to the European Court of Justice if it fails to comply and the court could impose stiff financial penalties.
Hungary has completed a second fence along its border with Serbia, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding that the European Union should be less critical of Turkey when it relies so heavily on Ankara's cooperation to stem the flow of migrants.
On April 26, the EU Commission, the bloc's executive branch, gave Budapest one month to modify a higher-education law passed three weeks earlier that some say is aimed at closing the Central European University, which was founded by USA billionaire philanthropist George Soros, whom Orban has harshly criticized. Orban says that issuing a US degree without having a USA campus gives CEU an unfair advantage over other domestic universities.
In a statement from Budapest, the CEU welcomed the legal action as confirmation of its belief that the law "is discriminatory and runs counter to European values".
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"The only thing the Central European University is asking is to be left alone, to do what it does well", he said.
Indeed, the university dispute is part of a wider Hungarian government campaign against Soros.
"The Balkan route is invariably active and, as the summer approaches, a growing number of migrants is heading toward Europe", Kontrat told a press conference in the town of Roszke, beside the fence on Hungary's southern frontier.
"The refugees issue is the reason why we are in strong confrontation with the commission, I suppose the majority of the parliament and Mr. Soros and his whole NGO empire", Orban told reporters after the debate in parliament.
Europe's biggest centre-right party to which Orban's Fidesz belongs, called on the Hungarian leader to comply.
"We come from 40 years of communist dictatorship and this is the land of freedom", Orban said.
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