Hungarian academy fears for its scientific freedom over draft law
Scientific institution condemns government’s ‘extraordinarily harmful’ plan to gain more control over research programmes
Hungary’s oldest scientific institution, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), is accusing the country’s government of trying to take ‘total political control’ of research. The accusation was raised after research minister László Palkovics proposed a law that would transfer management of the MTA’s research institutes away from the academy and to the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM).