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Hungary Today  (4 January 2024)

In an interview for the news portal nova24tv, MEP and member of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) Dr. Milan Zver spoke about the exclusion of Hungarian students from the Erasmus+ program. Dr. Zver, as the European Parliament’s permanent rapporteur for Erasmus+ since 2014, is well positioned to form an opinion about the political processes that had lead to the decision to discriminate against young Hungarian citizens.

Speaking about the Erasmus education program, Dr. Zver thinks that it is fundamentally a very good one, being the best known and most successful such initiative within the EU. Asked about the European Commission’s decision to exclude Hungarian students from the program on the basis of concerns about the governance of Hungarian universities, Dr. Zver replied by saying that: “the exclusion of Hungarian students from Erasmus+ was certainly one of the EU’s more high-profile mistakes.”

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