<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to all of you who might be interested in what is happening in Hungarian science politics, a sad and informative statement from our colleague István Kenesei (former Director of the Research Institute for Linguistics):<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Välitetty viesti alkaa:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Lähettäjä: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kenesei Istvan <<a href="mailto:kenesei.istvan@nytud.mta.hu" class="">kenesei.istvan@nytud.mta.hu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Aihe: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Hungarian ministry has ‘appropriated’ science academy’s scarce funding – ex-Academy director | Science|Business (fwd)</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Päivämäärä: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">4. helmikuuta 2019 klo 16.27.29 UTC+1<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Vastaanottaja: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:kenesei@nytud.hu" class="">kenesei@nytud.hu</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear All,<br class="">Having driven the Central European University out of the country,<br class="">since last summer the government has tried to exert direct control over the research network of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.<br class="">If you are interested, please follow the articles in the link below which takes to my corrections of the government spokesman's letter full of misleading claims.<br class="">As of now no immediate action is needed, but if you are interested, please follow the Academy website given at the end of my letter, or if you have any questions, contact me.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://sciencebusiness.net/letter-editor/hungarian-ministry-has-appropriated-science-academys-scarce-funding-ex-academy" class="">https://sciencebusiness.net/letter-editor/hungarian-ministry-has-appropriated-science-academys-scarce-funding-ex-academy</a><br class=""><br class="">With best regards,<br class=""><br class="">István Kenesei<br class="">Professor Emeritus<br class="">Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences<br class="">Member, Academia Europaea<br class="">Research Institute for Linguistics<br class="">Hungarian Academy of Sciences<br class="">Budapest Pf. 360, H-1394<br class="">Budapest 6, Benczur u. 33.<br class="">Phone: 36-1-3510413<br class="">www.nytud.mta.hu/kenesei<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>