Orban on offensive after EU takes legal action over Soros university
Source: The Guardian
Orbán on offensive after EU takes legal action over Soros university
PM in truculent mood as he rejects claims Hungarys education
laws designed to close institution founded by US billionaire
Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Wednesday 26 April 2017 19.29 BST
Viktor Orbán, Hungarys rightwing prime minister, has come out fighting against legal action launched by the EU because of his treatment of a university founded by George Soros, claiming Brussels was supporting a financial speculator who had destroyed the lives of millions of Europeans.
In combative performances addressing first the European parliament and then reporters, Orbán rejected claims that Hungarys new higher education laws were designed to shut down the Budapest-based Central European University.
He said the argument between the EU and Hungary was a technical legal matter and that the root of the clash lay instead in a continuing row about his countrys refusal to take in its allocated number of refugees under a Brussels plan to deal with the migration crisis.
Orbán accused CEU founder of destroying the lives of millions of people, telling MEPs: We are not as big and powerful as you are and as big and powerful as George Soros the American financial speculator attacking Hungary, who has destroyed the lives of millions of Europeans with his financial speculations, who has been fined for speculation in Hungary, and who is an open enemy of the euro.
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