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JULIA KIEFER Clémence Muller
Stuttgart (Germany), 15. April 1968. Rouen, France, 7th May 1968
In May 1968, students in France started protesting
over university reform, which ended into a nation-
wide protest against the government. In Budapest
this year, students were standing with the Central Eu-
ropean University (CEU) for academic freedom so
that they wouldn’t be relocated to Vienna and to
end all censorship in higher education and research.
Fifty years later, students still have a voice and are
back on the streets; so why not listen?
Germany, 2018.
In 1968 the german »Bild-Zeitung» was under criticism
of the protesting left oriented students, because its
populistic presentation of news led to rage and phys-
ical violence against the movement. Nowadays the
term »Lügenpresse« ( lying press ) has been estab-
lished and is used by the right xenophobic populists
to create mistrust towards the political center
ground.
Budapest, Hungary, 161h October 2018