Hungary Could Force Out Soros-founded University With New Law

Hungary's crackdown on foreign-funded NGOs is spilling over into a tightening of rules on foreign universities, which could shutter Budapest's Central European University (CEU), a stalwart of liberal international education in the country. The law "strikes at the heart" of CEU, founded by American financier and philanthropist George Soros, the institution said in a statement. CEU Rector Michael Ignatieff told an emergency town hall forum that the law must be...

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