It was founded in 1991 by George Soros, the Hungarian-born US financier, to promote a global “open society”. Amendments to Hungary’s higher education law, pushed through parliament in less than a week, would require the university to change its name and open a campus in the United States. It also calls for binding agreements about the university between Hungary and the United States. Organisers said that at least 80,000 people had taken part in the march to the parliament building in Budapest. The protesters want President Ader and the constitutional court to block…

Source: The Times April 09, 2017 23:37 UTC