Hungarian ministers linked to the foundations that control public universities will leave their posts this month, as the European Commission had been demanding so that the country could continue as before within the Erasmus student exchange program.
Viktor Orbán’s government spokesman, Gergely Gulyas, explained to the media on Wednesday that, in line with the «requests» of Brussels, the ministers will leave the questioned foundations on February 15, as explained by the Executive on Twitter.
The pulse goes back to 2021, when Orbán’s Executive favored related foundations to control universities, within a framework of privatization that generates doubts about the independence of centers that continue to be financed with public money.
The European Commission confirmed in January that it would no longer finance the scholarship program for students of universities linked to these foundations, in a punishment that has been applied since mid-December and which comes at a time when Brussels is closely monitoring respect for the rule of law in Hungary, even conditioning the disbursement of cohesion funds and the recovery plan after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
