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Ideology and Competition Key Issues Around Fudan University Budapest
The ideological impact of Fudan University’s Budapest campus, as well as its potential to overpower Hungarian universities, are both key issues in Hungary’s current discourse. While the Trade Union Association of Intellectuals (ÉSZT) warns about Hungarian universities falling into Fudan’s shadow, Minister of National Innovation and Technology László Palkovics says that the Chinese state-run university can only benefit Hungary.
Academic Union Warns of Fudan’s Power
The Confederation of Unions of Professionals (ÉSZT) emphasized that the media has been focusing little on the effect a Chinese state-run university with an overabundance of funding and a determination to access the European intellectual and economic market will have on Hungarian universities, many which are currently being redeveloped into private foundation-run models.
Budapest Mayor: Participatory Budget Deepens Democracy
The participatory budget, a new form of political engagement, is deepening democracy, Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, said at the first meeting of the city’s participatory budget held online on Saturday.
Karácsony said that citizens in this “important experiment” may express their views directly, adding that no one else would make decisions above the heads of the people of Budapest.
He said that a lot of time and energy was needed to run a participatory budget, and he thanked all those who had devoted their free time to the project.
The clash between the plans for construction of Fudan University’s Budapest campus and the IX District’s Student City Program has caused a conflict of interest between the Hungarian Fidesz-led government and Budapest’s opposition-led municipality. A number of developments have led to the Chinese state university being planned to replace the northern portion of the Student City. Opposition leaders are unhappy with what they consider to be an intrusion on the original plans for Ferencváros.
Budapest Mayor Does Not Support Fudan
Budapest mayor and co-leader of leftist green party Párbeszéd Gergely Karácsony stated last Monday that his administration is prepared to cancel 2023’s World Athletics Championships, set to be held in Budapest, if the planned Student City is not built in its entirety.
Renowned Hungarian Movie and Theater Star Mari Törőcsik Passes Away
Celebrated actress Mari Törőcsik, Actress of the Nation, holder of two Kossuth prizes, the Kossuth Grand Prize and winner of the Prize for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, has died at 85, the National Theatre said on Friday.
Törőcsik was born in 1935 in Pély in northern Hungary, and got her first internationally acclaimed role in Zoltán Fábri’s Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta) as a first-year student of the University of Theatre and Film Arts.
During her carreer spanning half a century, Törőcsik played in films with almost all important Hungarian directors including Miklós Jancsó, Károly Makk, Péter Gárdos, Péter Tímár and Márta Mészáros.