Hungary's far-right government passes law that lets it take over scientific research bodies
Published on: Wednesday 03 July 2019
Hungary‘s far-right government has passed a law allowing the state to tighten its control over scientific research bodies. The law strips the 200-year-old Hungarian Academy of Sciences of its network of 15 research bodies and hands them over to a committee. The committee’s chairman will be appointed by Viktor Orban, the Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, and half of its
