"Taken cumulatively, the overall situation in Hungary is a cause of concern", First Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans said in a news conference while questioning the compatibility of the rule with EU law.
The law stipulated that the CEU viewed as a bastion of independent thinking in eastern Europe, must open a branch in its home state of NY alongside its campus in Budapest and secure a bilateral agreement of support from the USA government - a rule the U.S. doesn't support.
Hungary's increasingly radical right-wing Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has declared war on liberalism, reports BBC's Nick Thorpe, in Budapest.
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His government has come under growing criticism of its treatment of asylum seekers - including on Monday, when the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said the container camps would surrounded by razor wire would "have a bad physical and psychological impact on women, children and men who have already greatly suffered".
Hungary has built fences on its southern borders to stop the flow of migrants and new rules allow all asylum-seekers older than 14 to be held in border container camps until their asylum petitions are decided.
"Pressure on Hungary has begun in order to induce the Hungarian government to surrender on the issue of migration", spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said in an emailed statement.
Soros' "open society" ideal contrasts with Orban's plan to make Hungary an "illiberal state".
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The European Union threatened Hungary with legal action on Wednesday over moves by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to shut down a university that the bloc fears run counter to its values on rights and democracy.
Orban views the New York-based Soros as a political antithesis pushing globalism contrary to Hungary's cherished local values. The Hugarian leader also opposes Soros' support for NGOs such as Transparency International which Orban views as trying to illegitimately influence his government and Hungary's politics. The law requires universities in Hungary also to have a campus in their home countries.
"Central European University has been a pearl in the crown of Central Europe in forming a new generation of European leaders that see East and West as geographical denominations, not moral or political denominations", said Timmermans.
The aim of the new legislation, the government says, was to address administrative shortcomings of foreign universities in Hungary.
The United States had called on Hungary to suspend implementation of the law, which on Sunday drew some of the biggest demonstrations against Mr. Orban's government by opponents who consider it part of a wider crackdown on dissent.
Besides CEU and the proposed law on the foreign funding of NGOs, Timmermans also said there were "serious doubts" about the compatibility of Hungary's recently tightened asylum law with European Union norms.
Gorondi wrote from Budapest.
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