The Green Party chairman of the European Parliament’s Culture and Education Committee wrote a letter to Hungarian Minister Balázs Hankó, urging him to incorporate the EU committee’s proposals into Hungarian laws regarding model-changed universities, Magyar Nemzet has learned.
According to the paper’s sources, the chairman of the committee is, among other things, asking that Hungarian rectors be excluded from the boards of trustees of the foundations that maintain universities, that the Hungarian government implement rules that allow Brussels to decide who the heads of Hungarian universities can be, and that NGOs controlled from Brussels supervise the board elections of the foundations that maintain universities.
Magyar Nemzet understands that the minister responsible for culture and innovation has responded to the committee president, with Balázs Hankó addressing the double standards in Brussels.
He said that Hungarian members of parliament were classified as having a conflict of interest in these foundations, but at the same time, according to Ursula von der Leyen, Manfred Weber and their party colleagues, as well as the Green Party president who signed the letter, MEPs can easily participate in the work of university foundations.
In short, Hungarian politicians must keep out of Hungarian universities, while European MEPs, who are predominately part of the left-liberal establishment, should be actively involved in Hungarian universities.
“So the Brussels plan is clear here too: Instead of rectors, Brussels governors should sit on the foundations, and Brussels and the NGOs now being forced out of America will say who the university leaders in Hungary can be, what the students can study, with whom they can collaborate, and if they behave properly, they will even organize a trip abroad, of course only to a university where woke and cancel culture is the mindset,” read the statement from Hankó.
According to Hankó, the procedure that disregards democracy and the rule of law is what the European Parliament and its education committee chairman, Green MP Nela Riehl, are increasingly about.
“In a recent interview, she proudly admits that although the Patriots should have given up the chairmanship of the committee, it is so democratic that he takes it from them, thus disregarding the votes of millions of people, disregarding the third-strongest faction, just because the Patriots are the Brussels opposition. This is how democracy in Brussels works,” the minister argues.
It is time for Patriots to speak out against the commission’s illegal decisions that persecute Hungarian university students. Universities must be protected against the commission’s ideology of domination.
“On the other hand, a new internationalization program called Pannónia has been launched for Hungarian universities, which is more successful than Erasmus. Already in the first autumn semester, 3,000 students, teachers, and researchers have reached the leading universities not only in Europe but also in the world. With higher scholarships and full credit recognition,” wrote Balázs Hankó, adding that while Brussels excludes students, the Pannónia program is inclusive because it also provides opportunities for foreigners studying at the renewed Hungarian universities.
The minister also stated that the Pannónia program will continue in the spring semester. The goal is for 5,000 university students, researchers, and teachers to participate in such programs, and they are also happy to welcome students from the Vienna Modul University, which was recently excluded from Erasmus by Brussels.
