His Open Society Foundation, under unceasing harassment from Hungary’s paranoid, reactionary government, will leave Budapest and move to Berlin; his Central European University, also based in Budapest and also under unrelenting official harassment, will stay. For now.
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Berlin’s gain.
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But UD must say… I mean, on the matter of Hungary… On one level she’s forced to admire the belligerent and thoroughgoing regressive approach to global coexistence coming out of that country. It’s the Saudi Arabia of Europe.
May 15th, 2018 at 7:56AM
don’t forget Poland…
May 15th, 2018 at 9:42AM
Poland’s not as bad, but yes – things there are pretty horrible.