Optimism rises for Hungarian research after seismic election result

Hungarian academics are cautiously optimistic that Sunday’s landslide electoral defeat for prime minister Viktor Orbán could bring better times for the country’s researchers. Under 16 years of rule by Orbán’s Fidesz party, academic freedom in Hungary has suffered, while in recent years most researchers have been locked out of the EU’s Horizon Europe research programme and Erasmus+ student exchanges.

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This post was written by Pethő-Szirmai Judit