<p>Thousands of members of Budapest’s academic community marched through the city towards the national parliament on April 2 in protest of pending legislation that could forcibly close Central European University</a>, a school founded by George Soros.</p><p>The legislation has been perceived</a> as an attack on civil society organizations, most notably those backed by Soros, a Hungarian-American philanthropist whome Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused of violating the country’s higher education graduation system.</p><p>The legislation sets up regulations for “foreign” universities, effectively applying only to Central European University. The US State Department has condemned the bill.</p><p>CEU, founded in 1991, is accredited in the United States and Hungary.</p><br />
