The most recent amendment of the act on tertiary education will prescribe new requirements for foreign universities operating in Hungary. Their educational activity will have to be based on a bilateral intergovernmental agreement and they will be obliged to have a campus in their country of origin. The primary adressee of the legislation is the Central European University (CEU), based in New York and founded by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.
On Sunday, a huge demonstration was held in Budapest to support the CEU. A number of opposition politicians appeared at the event, however, without any party flags. We asked them, why they were there and did not they think that their presence was rather a disadvantage for the issue.