Protesters hold placards reading in Hungarian ‘we will not be a colony’, and ‘no Fudan’ in Budapest on Saturday.
A senior Orban aide said late on Sunday the university was not even at the planning phase, and once the plan took shape, in early 2023, it could be put to a referendum. According to media reports, the government was willing to pay for the construction of Shanghai-based Fudan University’s first campus in Europe with a Chinese loan. The campus would displace a planned local student housing area.
A media spokesman at the Chinese Embassy in Hungary, who did not give his name, criticised Karacsony’s comments on the embassy’s Facebook page.
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