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You could if anything think of it as being yet another thing against globalism. Soros is just another globalist money-maker with hands in Hungary and this could perhaps be to the determent of Hungarian primacy. That's probably what's going on.
If Orban is trying to ride the wave of populism then he doesn't need to do much. This way of conservative populism isn't necessarily 'deep'.
No I get that. It's the same blurb I've been getting from just about everywhere. It's a protectionist move against foreign institutions and all that.
I get that Orbán is all in on the whole globalist conspiracy theory. That he's riding the populism and all that.
What I don't get is what the Lex CEU is supposed to actually be doing, what it's precise mechanisms of action are in order to defund, what the actual legislated rationale is beyond mere educational protectionism, nationalism, and all that.
ALso speaking of Soros, I find it a little ironic though, given that Soros himself is Hungarian...and if anything you could make a very rational argument that what he's doing is actually just as nationalistic as he give the nation an actual second internationally viable university institution besides Eötvös Loránd. I'm trying to look into the internal logic to the piece and also how it affects other institutions despite the fact it was so narrowly tailored as to basically only affect CEU...it surely has wider impacts on other institutions. In short there's a dearth of information out there about the longer-term forecasts about the impact of the forced shutdown of the CEU.
But you're right, this kind of national conservatism is pretty simple by and large: to read too much into the motivations is probably foolish.
Also, I'm not really looking to be filled in on it (I already know the broad strokes that you're touching on), so much as find further sources, articles, etc on the specifics, the details.