The Mathias Corvinus Collegium, a Hungarian “talent institution” which funds scholarships and fosters traditional conservative values, is to open a new branch near London’s iconic Trafalgar Square.
The Collegium, which recently hosted former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson in Budapest, will establish the conservative redoubt at a Hungarian cultural center in the British capital, having previously gained a foothold in the country’s top universities by partnering with the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation.
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has supported the Collegium with public funding – as Western governments across the world fund generally leftist universities – as part of a modest effort to resist the general trend of education when it comes to such issues as diversity, gender ideology, and the role of religion in public life.
Orban has explicitly stated that he wishes to build a “Christian democracy” in Hungary, in which customs, traditions, and values derived from Christianity are given pride of place, and mass migration and multiculturalism are discouraged in favor of support for motherhood, the family, and social cohesion.
Previously, he has advertised Hungary as a bastion of traditional conservatism, willing to welcome Western “refugees”. The branching out of institutions like the Collegium suggests that he intends to try and spread his values overseas – as rivals to Orban such as George Soros have done with leftist institutions like his Central European University (CEU).
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