FILE PHOTO: A view inside the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's top court said on Tuesday that Hungary's reform of higher education rules, which forced a university founded by George Soros to move most of its activities out of the country, was in breach of EU law.
The ruling follows a complaint from the European Commission and is one of many issues in which the EU has clashed with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's hardline stance on migration and minorities, as well as moves to increase state control of the courts, media and NGOs.
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