Brussels has put new obstacles in front of Hungarian university students and researchers in the Erasmus and Horizon programs, politically it continues to hold young Hungarians hostage, said the minister responsible for culture and innovation on the current channel M1 on Tuesday.

Balázs Hankó made a statement in connection with the fact that according to press reports

the European Commission is preparing to withdraw the HUF 400 billion subsidy amount and to reject the amendment to the law on universities changing the model.

He recalled: in November last year, a proposal was sent regarding the conflict of interest of the members of the board of trustees, a definite period of time, the so-called cooling-off period, but they were not discussed with them for more than a year. they received in writing "what is the problem" of the board.

The conflict of interest for trustee members, the amendment to the law concerning the fixed term of trusteeship, and the cooling-off period following the so-called conflict of interest were accepted by the European Commission in "Brussels language" on the basis of the Hungarian legislative amendment, and although "they have no legal basis for it",

in order to prevent Hungarian university students and Hungarian researchers from gaining access to their rightful rights, it was invented that such a conflict of interest should not only apply to higher education foundations, but to all foundations

he added.

"What does a cultural foundation have to do with Erasmus and Horizon? Nothing." said Balázs Hankó.

He pointed out that until now it was about the conflict of interest of the members of the board of trustees, which "it looks like Brussels will now accept it", "the legislative amendment is in order, so now he says that such a conflict of interest must be done for the managers of all reserved legal entities".

"We remember that they want to touch the rectors, the professors, the university autonomy, they stealthily describe this, that they will say who can be leaders in the case of reserved organizations, and then in our universities they will say who can be leaders"

he pointed out.

Balázs Hankó believed that

"Brussels is covering up the whole thing" , he behaves in a deliberately discriminatory way towards Hungarian university students and Hungarians, moreover, he makes his proposals in such a way that they do not come before the political decision-making forum, he only sends a piece of information.

They always invent new things, they always move the goal further, they always put another obstacle there, which is why the successful Pannonia Scholarship program continues, with which three thousand will go to the world's leading universities in the first semester, and the HU-rizont program also continues. in which Hungarian universities cooperate with excellent universities such as Stamford, Cambridge or the University of Singapore - he listed.

He stated: "we are moving forward with regard to the successful Hungarian model, and we are not willing to accept the stealthy dictatorship that Brussels has created".

Balázs Hankó also pointed out that since they are taking university students hostage, they want to take Hungarian universities hostage politically, and they have no legal basis for this, and six Hungarian universities have sued Brussels, "in the interest of our right and justice".

"We expect that the trial of the six universities and the outcome of the trial of the six universities will bring the truth to the surface," said the minister.

János Bóka: The Hungarian government is doing everything to eliminate the discriminatory situation affecting Hungarian students and researchers

The Hungarian government will do everything to eradicate the discriminatory situation affecting Hungarian students and researchers, to this end we will use all political and legal means, and we will continue negotiations with the European Commission, János Bóka stated on Tuesday in Brussels, where he was responsible for European Union affairs responsible minister holds consultations with colleagues from EU member states.

On Monday, the European Commission confirmed that it does not consider the amendment of the law on public interest trust foundations adopted in November to be appropriate, according to the decision, foundation-maintained universities will still not have access to the Erasmus and Horizon programs.

"It is difficult to interpret this as anything other than the fact that the committee intends to use this procedure to exert political pressure"

the minister pointed out.

Source: civilek.info / MTI

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