Central European University is a private graduate university in the social sciences and humanities, founded by the Hungarian-American financier George Soros after the fall of communism, with the aim of supporting open societies in the postcommunist region. It was chartered in the United States and began teaching in Budapest, with a campus also in Prague for a short period. In 2017 the Hungarian government of Viktor Orban passed legislation that made it difficult for the university to continue operating in Hungary, which was widely seen as a political attack, and the European Court of Justice later ruled the law was against EU law. The university moved most of its operations to Vienna in 2019, while continuing some activity in Budapest.
Before and after
- 1991Launch of AllMusic
- 1991Founding of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- 1991Establishment of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- 1991Rise of Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
- 1991Founding of Central European University
- 1991Rise of electronica
- 1991Establishment of Rwenzori Mountains National Park
- 1991The Chicxulub crater is identified
- 26 January 1991Somali Civil War
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