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Opposition party slams government support of the Chinese Fudan University in Budapest
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The opposition Jobbik party on Saturday slammed the government for funding the Budapest branch of China’s Fudan University with 821 million forints (EUR 2.2m), and called for the support of modern, autonomous Hungarian universities instead.
Party lawmaker Koloman Brenner told an online press conference that “turning a Chinese university loose in Hungarian higher education” and allocating it special government funding was a “new level in [ruling] Fidesz’s anti-knowledge and anti-intellectual politics”.
H insisted that the university’s high international ranking was “because academic freedom was not among the indicators of such lists”.
Brenner said Jobbik agreed with the government that Hungary should nurture its ties with China, in cooperation with other European Union countries. However,
H insisted that the university’s high international ranking was “because academic freedom was not among the indicators of such lists”.
Brenner said Jobbik agreed with the government that Hungary should nurture its ties with China, in cooperation with other European Union countries. However,
they protest against the operation of a university in the country that is “controlled directly by the Chinese Communist Party”,
he said. The government should support modern Hungarian universities rather than Chinese ones, he said.
- Fudan University, one of the world’s best, to build a campus in Budapest by 2024
- Hungary, China to cooperate on establishment of Fudan Hungary University in Budapest
- Hungarian government to locate the Chinese Fudan University in a new student city
As we reported before,
The Budapest campus of Fudan University
can be located in the southern part of the capital, near Nagyvásártelep.
Opposite the new Athletic Centre, on the other side of the Kvassay Bridge, the first European campus of Fudan University in China could be built. On the other hand, it is not yet clear which property(s) the Chinese university will receive for the development from the plots bordered by the former Nagyvásártelep, Kvassay Jenő Street, and Ráckevei Danube Branch.
It is not 821 million HUF. It is about 500 *billion* HUF (1670 million USD).