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Podcast: De Balie
Episode: 39. Special - Michael Ignatieff and why the future of Europe is hanging in the balance
Description: In this special edition of De Balie Podcast, Yoeri Albrecht (Director De Balie) speaks with the president of the Central European University (CEU) Michael Ignatieff. At the end of last year CEU decided to move its offices across the former Iron Curtain to Vienna. The position of the university became untenable after a long-running crackdown by Viktor Orban and the Hungarian authorities. What does this move of CEU say about democracy in Europe and the future of former Iron Curtain countries? Ignatieff is one of the world's most renowned global thinkers, who last year...